Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: Russian government hackers seem to have figured out that sometimes the best way to hack into people’s Gmail accounts is be to abuse Google’s own services. On Thursday, researchers exposed a massive Russian espionage and disinformation campaign using emails designed to trick users into giving up their passwords, a technique that’s known…
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Another day, another litigation threat
I am really out of patience for people threatening me or my site. Look at this one: I need to you get rid of an article off of your website: The link is: https://www.databreaches.net/cytta-reports-online-hacking-of-their-nevada-secretary-of-state-officer-and-director-data/ Steffan Dalsgaard is not guilty of these allegations, no one except your website has accused him of hacking the state of Nevada. Nevada has…
Target to Pay 47 States $18.5M to Settle Data Breach Case
Stephen Joyce reports: Target Corp. will pay $18.5 million to settle state enforcement actions over the retailer’s payment card hacking breach that affected as many as 60 million customers during the 2013 winter holiday shopping season, a coalition of 47 state attorneys general announced May 23. The settlement capped an investigation led by Illinois Attorney…
Font sharing site DaFont has been hacked, exposing thousands of accounts
Zack Whittaker reports: A popular font sharing site DaFont.com has been hacked, exposing the site’s entire database of user accounts. Usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords of 699,464 user accounts were stolen in the breach, carried out earlier this month, by a hacker who would not divulge his name. The passwords were scrambled with the…
Zomato Hacked; 17 Million Accounts Sold on Dark Web
Waqas writes: HackRead found out a vendor going by the online handle of “nclay” is claiming to have hacked Zomato and selling the data of its 17 million registered users on a popular Dark Web marketplace. The database includes emails and password hashes of registered Zomato users while the price set for the whole package is USD…
Twitter discloses Vine users’ emails and phone numbers were exposed for a day
Sarah Perez reports: Twitter is alerting Vine users of a bug that exposed their email addresses and, in some cases, phone numbers to third parties. It’s also advising affected users to be cautious about any emails from unknown senders as a result. The company says the bug was only active for 24 hours before being patched, and…