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Security The Web

Man posing as Apple support rep scoured hundreds of iCloud accounts for nude images

Never give up your login credentials to anyone

By Adrian Potoroaca, August 25, 2021, 10:32 AM

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Gaming Security

CD Projekt Red's stolen data has reportedly been sold off by hackers

Bad news for the troubled developer

By Cohen Coberly, February 11, 2021, 4:52 PM 19 comments

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Industry Security

UK's ICO swings $230 million stick at British Airways for major data breach

GDPR strikes again with ICO's biggest fine yet

By Adrian Potoroaca, July 8, 2019, 11:17 AM

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British Airways hacked: customer credit card, personal data stolen

Up to 380,000 customers affected

By Paul Taylor, September 7, 2018, 7:48 AM 7 comments

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Congress advised to let US companies retaliate against Chinese hackers

By Shawn Knight, November 18, 2015, 6:30 AM

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Security Mobile

Samsung says mobile payment platform unaffected by LoopPay hack

By Shawn Knight, October 9, 2015, 7:30 AM

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Criminals steal 100,000 taxpayer records from IRS systems

By Tim Schiesser, May 27, 2015, 10:30 AM

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Staples is investigating possible theft of customer credit and debit card data

By Shawn Knight, October 22, 2014, 7:15 AM

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Industry Gaming

Sony to settle PlayStation Network class action suit for $15 million in goods and services

By Shawn Knight, July 24, 2014, 11:30 AM 8 comments

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Canadian law enforcement officials make first Heartbleed-related arrest

By Shawn Knight, April 16, 2014, 7:00 PM 10 comments

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Crytek security breach results in 'possible' loss of user data

By Shawn Knight, August 6, 2013, 2:45 PM

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Security Industry

TD Bank "misplaced" the unencrypted data of 267,000 customers

By Matthew DeCarlo, October 16, 2012, 5:00 PM 7 comments

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AntiSec breaches FBI laptop, grabs 12 million Apple iOS UDIDs

By Lee Kaelin, September 4, 2012, 9:59 AM 27 comments