Security Industry Robinhood says data of 7 million customers was exposed in a security incident earlier this month The attackers were looking to extort the company By Adrian Potoroaca, November 9, 2021, 7:55 AM
Security The Web Hackers deface Twitch with pictures of Jeff Bezos, following massive data breach Ain't no rest for the wicked By Adrian Potoroaca, October 8, 2021, 11:10 AM
Wearable Tech Security Unsecured database exposed over 60 million fitness wearable devices The database was discovered without so much as a password By Adriel Teixeira, September 13, 2021, 2:56 PM
Security Hacker claims responsibility for T-Mobile breach in WSJ interview, says carrier has 'awful' security T-Mobile hacker comes forward to draw attention to alleged kidnapping By Shawn Knight, August 26, 2021, 3:44 PM
Microsoft Security Misconfiguration in Microsoft Power Apps portals expose 38 million records Microsoft, Ford, and American Airlines are among the affected organizations By Adrian Potoroaca, August 24, 2021, 8:17 AM
Security T-Mobile says 48 million current and former customers impacted by hack, offers free identity theft protection 48 million is better than 100 million, right? By Rob Thubron, August 18, 2021, 7:38 AM
Security The Web A hacker claims to be selling data on over 100 million T-Mobile customers; the company keeps investigating This looks bad By Rob Thubron, August 16, 2021, 11:00 AM
Security The Web Over 3.3M VW customers have had their personal details exposed Volkswagen is the latest company to suffer a major data breach By Joao Silva, June 14, 2021, 1:09 PM
Security Gaming More stolen data from CD Projekt Red comes to light Plus, a clunky Cyberpunk 2077 pre-alpha to boot By Matthew Lee, June 12, 2021, 12:58 PM
Security Hardware GPD Win 3 maker leaks customer emails in another major blunder More woes for the beleaguered "Switch Killer" By Matthew Lee, June 12, 2021, 10:30 AM
Security The Web Data breach exposes McDonald's employee and customer information The data was accessed in South Korea and Taiwan By Joao Silva, June 11, 2021, 3:13 PM
Gaming Security The cost of the EA data breach: $10 and a bit of social engineering A lesson in the perils of social engineering By Shawn Knight, June 11, 2021, 9:24 AM 12 comments
Security Gaming Hackers steal source code and more from Electronic Arts in massive data breach EA falls victim to hackers in new data breach By Shawn Knight, June 10, 2021, 12:53 PM 8 comments
The Web Security Facebook said it isn't notifying users if they were affected by the leak of 533 million records It patched the hole 18 months ago and the data was already public---nothing to see here---move along By Cal Jeffrey, April 8, 2021, 12:59 PM 11 comments
Security The Web Parler-like site Gab was hacked, 70 GB of data is now in the hands of an activist group The breach includes public and private interactions between 15,000 users By Adrian Potoroaca, March 1, 2021, 6:44 PM 108 comments
Security The Web Over 500 million Facebook users' phone numbers are for sale through a Telegram bot Taken from a 2019 vulnerability By Rob Thubron, January 26, 2021, 6:37 AM
Gaming Security Capcom's November data breach may have exposed the personal details of up to 390,000 people Capcom still says customers haven't been affected By Cohen Coberly, January 12, 2021, 12:20 PM
Security Spotify resets over 300,000 user passwords following external database leak Weak passwords are the culprit By Cohen Coberly, November 24, 2020, 12:08 PM
Security Capcom reveals what user data was exposed during recent cyberattack Originally calling it an 'internal network breach,' the company now admits it was 'customized ransomware' By Cal Jeffrey, November 16, 2020, 5:58 PM
Gaming Capcom says its 'internal network' has been breached, but no customer data was exposed But we still advise you to reset your passwords By Cohen Coberly, November 5, 2020, 12:43 PM
Security Online gold seller hacked, customer payment details could be at risk Malicious code sat on the site for five months By Rob Thubron, November 3, 2020, 7:16 AM
Security Someone just dumped 20GB of internal Intel data on the Internet Never a good look By Shawn Knight, August 7, 2020, 9:31 AM 10 comments
Security The Web DNA analysis service GEDmatch suffers breach exposing 1.3 million DNA profiles Hackers opted everyone in for sharing their DNA profile with law enforcement By Adrian Potoroaca, July 23, 2020, 1:47 PM 10 comments
Security Details of over 142 million MGM hotel guests discovered on dark web The 2019 breach was worse than initially thought By Rob Thubron, July 14, 2020, 9:06 AM
Security Tech Culture Many users don't change their passwords following a data breach Years of education has seemingly fallen on deaf ears By Shawn Knight, June 3, 2020, 10:02 AM