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Forrester Announces Cybersecurity Incident Involving Forrester.com

Posted on October 7, 2017 by Dissent

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq:  FORR) announced today that Forrester.com experienced a cybersecurity incident this week. To date, Forrester’s investigation has determined that the attack was limited to content made available to Forrester clients through Forrester.com. There is no evidence that confidential client data, financial information, or confidential employee data was accessed or exposed as part…

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No holds barred? TheDarkOverlord threatens students with physical violence to send FBI a message to back off

Posted on October 7, 2017 by Dissent

DataBreaches.net has been reporting on TheDarkOverlord (TDO) since they first burst on the scene in June, 2016. Since then, this site has reported on numerous attacks by them on health care entities, financial and business entities, a Hollywood post-production studio, and a defense contractor. Now they have begun to  target the education sector, and an official at the…

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Disqus reveals it suffered a security breach in 2012

Posted on October 7, 2017 by Dissent

Richard Lawler reports: Another day, another security breach (and another, and another…). This time it’s Disqus, which is revealing that in 2012 — around the time when Engadget used Disqus for comments — hackers made off with some of its data, covering a snapshot of usernames and associated email addresses dating back to 2007, as…

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Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3 Billion

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Dissent

Robert McMillan and Ryan Knutson report: A massive data breach at Yahoo AABA 1.95% in 2013 was far more extensive than previously disclosed, affecting all of its 3 billion user accounts, new parent company Verizon Communications Inc. said on Tuesday. The figure, which Verizon said was based on new information, is three times the 1…

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Spanish court grants U.S. extradition for Russian hacking suspect

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Dissent

Reuters reports: Spain’s High Court said on Tuesday it had granted a U.S. request to extradite Russian citizen Peter Levashov, who is accused of U.S. hacking offences including operating a network of infected computers used by cyber criminals. Levashov, 36, was arrested while on holiday in Barcelona in April. Read more on Reuters.

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Gaming Service Goes Down After Hacker Wipes Database and Holds It for Ransom

Posted on October 1, 2017 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: R6DB, an online service that provides statistics for Rainbow Six Siege players, went down over the weekend after an attacker wiped the company’s database and asked a ransom. The attack took down the service Saturday, September 30. In a statement released on Sunday, the company said an automated bot accessed their server,…

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