- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 26th, 2016
Hacktivist Hacks Costa Rica's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Hackers protest against CAFTA trade deal
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 23rd, 2016
University of Virginia Announces Breach of Employee Data
FBI arrested the perpetrators, has then in custody
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 19th, 2016
ASDA Supermarket Exposed Customer Details for Almost Two Years
Supermarket chain takes forever to fix XSS and CSRF bugs
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 14th, 2016
Faithless Website Breached via SQL Injection, Fans Data Stolen
Data for 18,000 users stolen in the incident
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 7th, 2016
FBI Warns Time Warner Cable of Possible Data Breach Affecting 320,000 Customers
Time Warner will start emailing all affected customers
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 1st, 2016
Verizon Devs Leave API Password Inside Website Source Code
Forgotten debug code causes problems to Verizon
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 29th, 2015
Misconfigured Database Exposes Details of 191 Million US Voters
Researchers could not track down the database's owner
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 27th, 2015
Hyatt Hotels Reports Data Breach, Blames PoS Malware
Another major hotel chain hit by PoS malware
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 20th, 2015
Landry's Restaurant Chain Reports Card Breach, Unauthorized Transactions
Customers report illegal charges on their credit cards
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 20th, 2015
Data Breach on Hello Kitty Servers, Over 3.3 Million Accounts Exposed
After VTech, another kids service suffers a data breach
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 15th, 2015
UK Police Arrest Suspect in VTech Data Breach
Suspect arrested in Bracknell, West of London
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 15th, 2015
MacKeeper Exposed Details for 13 Million Users
Leaky database server left exposed online is at fault
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 14th, 2015
Developer of Dating App for HIV-Positive Singles Threatens to Give AIDS to Security Researcher
MongoDB databases left unprotected online are to blame
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 14th, 2015
Anonymous Hacks European Space Agency Just for Fun
The hacker did it "for the lulz," no other reason
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 12th, 2015
85 Percent of Customers Refuse to Shop at Stores That Suffered a Data Breach
Retail owners beware, users are taxing the lack of security measures by not shopping on your online stores anymore
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 10th, 2015
WordPress Hosting Service WP Engine Announces Data Breach Update
Company resets passwords for all clients, just to be safe
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 27th, 2015
Children Toy Maker VTech Hacked, Data About Kids and Parents Stolen
4.8 million parent records exposed, 200,000 kid accounts