- Windows
- By Bogdan Popa
- July 10th, 2017
Windows 10 Finally Getting a Feature to Reset Passwords from the Lock Screen
Option currently being tested in the latest preview build
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 26th, 2016
DomainTools Warns Customers of User Data Scraping Attack
Possible danger to infosec journalists and researchers
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 12th, 2016
Amazon Denies Data Breach Rumors but Resets User Passwords Just in Case
Amazon forcibly resets some user passwords
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 13th, 2016
Cyber-Attack Makes VoIP Provider Issue Notification for Possible Data Breach
VoIPTalk asks customers to reset their VoIP/SIP passwords
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 27th, 2016
Opera Sync Forces Users to Reset Passwords After Server Breach
Company still investigating the extent of the data breach
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 26th, 2016
Dropbox Asking Pre-2012 Users to Reset Their Passwords
2012 data resurfaces online, forces Dropbox to take action
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 22nd, 2016
Carbonite Online Backup Service Resets All Users Passwords After Cyber-Attack
One day after GoToMyPC, Carbonite suffers the same fate
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 19th, 2016
GoToMyPC Remote Desktop Service Under Attack, Resets User Passwords
Incident seems to be another ATO (account takeover) attack
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 16th, 2016
GitHub Resets Some User Passwords After Brute-Force Attack
Some GitHub users were victims of password reuse
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 8th, 2016
Facebook, Netflix Start Resetting User Passwords Because of Recent Mega Breaches
Blame MySpace, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and VK.com
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 1st, 2016
Scrum.org Hacked, Company Blames Software Supplier
Attackers used vulnerability in email server software
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 27th, 2016
Reddit Resets Passwords for 100,000 Users After Recent Surge in Hacked Accounts
More user password resets to come, Reddit co-founder says
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 13th, 2016
Tumblr Resets Some User Passwords Following Data Leak
Yahoo says leaked user data is from 2013
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 29th, 2016
vBulletin Servers Hacked, Admins Force Password Reset for All Users
There's no new vBulletin 0-day, it's just a targeted attack
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 5th, 2016
Linode VPS Host Under Two-Week Long DDoS, Now Announces Data Breach
For Linode, the DDoS attacks just took a turn for the worse
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- April 30th, 2015
Betfair Fixes Serious Password Reset Security Flaw
Password was changed based on public info, no verification
- Security Fixes and Improvements
- By Ionut Ilascu
- March 19th, 2015
Drupal Security Update Fixes Password Reset Flaw
Vulnerabilities are considered moderately critical