- By Bogdan Popa
- October 21st, 2015
Self-Encrypting HDDs Not Really Encrypted, Store Passwords in Plain Text
Researchers find encryption systems are really easy to crack
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 19th, 2015
1Password Leaks Account Metadata, but Your Passwords Are Safe UPDATE
Issue affects older 1Password accounts where data is encrypted using the older Agile Keychain format
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 17th, 2015
Electronic Arts (EA) Denies Reports of a Data Breach, Despite User Data Surfacing Online UPDATE
Company says it will investigate further
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 2nd, 2015
Anonymous Leaks Top Secret Canadian Government Documents, Again
Operation Anon Down continues as Anonymous enacts revenge
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 1st, 2015
Experian Hacked, Data for 15 Million T-Mobile Customers Lost UPDATE
T-Mobile: Data encryption may have been compromised
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 29th, 2015
Trump Hotels Confirm Data Breach and PoS Malware Incident
Credit card data for Trump Hotels customers exposed
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 25th, 2015
Microsoft Office Documents Are Favorite Targets in Data Breaches
21% of all data breaches are simple accidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 19th, 2015
Software Firm's Blunder Exposes 1.5M Private User Details on AWS Server
3 million payment details leaked in the incident as well
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 15th, 2015
Unprotected API Exposes User Details for the Kardashian Websites
API also exposes the total number of subscribers per site
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 14th, 2015
Lloyds Bank Breached, Data for Thousands of Customers Stolen
A stolen hard drive is to blame for the incident
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 12th, 2015
Pentagon's Food Court System Hacked, Credit Card Data Stolen
Only a few thousand employees were affected
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 10th, 2015
Cal State Students Taking Sexual Harassment Class Have Their Data Leaked Online
Around 80,000 students affected by the data breach
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 10th, 2015
Excellus BCBS Data Breach Exposes Data for 10 Million Americans
Data breach occurred around Christmas 2013
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 10th, 2015
888 Data Breaches Were Recorded in 2015, 246 Million Records Lost So Far
671 data breaches were recorded in the US alone
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 9th, 2015
Boston Authorities Exposed Sensitive Data from Automatic License Plate Readers
Boston PD still tracks vehicles, after it said it stopped
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 8th, 2015
Mohu Loses Credit Card Details for 2,500 Clients During Data Breach
The company offers free credit monitoring services for a year for all users affected in the data breach
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 6th, 2015
ReverbNation Suffers Data Breach, Urges Users to Change Passwords
Assailant is already arrested and charged