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Many Origin accounts are being hijacked, EA offers no explanation
- If you have an Origin account, you may want to change your password. Scattered reports from gamers including Eurogamer's Richard Leadbetter indicate that EA may have suffered a security breach. Affected users claim to have received an email from Origin…
IEEE accidentally exposed 100,000 unencrypted user credentials
- A Romanian researcher who recently found plaintext usernames and passwords on an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) server has published his analysis of the data. Radu Dragusin, a computer scientist who works for search engine FindZebra, discovered the…
Over 8 million Gamigo user logins leaked months after breach
- Millions of user logins swiped from a German gaming company earlier this year have appeared online this month. In February, hackers bypassed the security of free-to-play MMORPG outfit Gamigo, taking over 11 million email addresses and encrypted passwords (though only…
Experian: password theft soars 300% to 12 million in the first quarter
- Cybercriminals illegally trading stolen personal information online such as passwords has soared exponentially to 300% during the first four months of 2012, according to the latest research from Experian CreditExpert and market research agency Opinion Matters.
Nvidia and Android forums fall victim to hackers
- Add two more websites to the already long list of sites that have been hacked as of late. Nvidia’s developer forum and Phandroid’s AndroidForums.com have both been breached and it is believed that usernames and hashed passwords were among the…
Hackers post 453,000 plaintext Yahoo Voices logins
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Hackers collectively known as "D33Ds Company" have posted unencrypted credentials for over 453,000 Yahoo Voices accounts. The group reportedly used an SQL injection to extract the information, which includes email addresses, passwords, over 2,700 database table…
Formspring servers breached, 420,000 encrypted passwords stolen
- Formspring has joined the likes of LinkedIn, Last.fm, eHarmony and other sites breached recently, revealing yesterday that passwords were swiped from its servers. Following an investigation, the social service determined that an unknown intruder gained access to the company's development…
Hacker claims to have broken into nearly 80 banks, provides evidence
- A self-proclaimed grey hat hacker known as Reckz0r claims to have accessed nearly 80 large banks, collecting a massive amount of customer data in the process. To verify these claims, the hacker made a plain text file available on AnonFiles.com…
Valve confirms user data was stolen in Steam hacking
- Valve has confirmed that the attacks on its forum late Sunday, which included its defacing before it was taken offline, extends beyond just user account details and includes personal information of those with Steam accounts.
Steam forums shut down due to security breach?
- Steam’s official forums are currently offline for what is being called a maintenance issue, although there’s reason to believe that the site’s vBulletin forum software may have been hacked. Valve hasn’t commented on the issue yet but some gamers noticed…
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