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Mixcloud data breach sees 20 million user accounts exposed

Leaked data is now up for sale on the dark web

  • 02 December 2019
  • Controversy
The OnePlus site has been hacked again

Watch out for phoney phone emails

  • 25 November 2019
  • Security
Macy's becomes the latest victim of a Magecart skimming attack

It claims only a 'small number' of customers were hit

  • 19 November 2019
  • Controversy
Trend Micro staffer sold the data of nearly 70,000 customers

The calls weren't coming from inside the house

  • 07 November 2019
  • Security
Morrisons tells court it's 'entirely blameless' for 2014 payroll data leak

Firm claims it should not be held vicariously liable

  • 07 November 2019
  • Security
Devilish hackers breach domain name outfit Web.com

Registraaaargh

  • 31 October 2019
  • Controversy
Adobe left 7.5 million account details on an unsecured server

Fixed in a flash

  • 28 October 2019
  • Security
Equifax used default 'admin' password to secure hacked portal

Lawsuit claims firm failed to take even 'the most basic precautions'

  • 21 October 2019
  • Security
BA customers given go-ahead to sue firm over 2018 mega-breach

Class-action gets green light

  • 07 October 2019
  • Security
EA website balls-up exposes personal details of FIFA 20 players

What a ludicrous display

  • 04 October 2019
  • Controversy
Tax records of 20 million Russians exposed online

This Moscow to the very top

  • 01 October 2019
  • Security
Zynga hack exposes data of 218 million Words with Friends players

Here's hoping your password was, er, Scrabbled

  • 30 September 2019
  • Controversy
WeWork's shonky WiFi leaks all kinds of sensitive documents

WeWork needs a rework

  • 20 September 2019
  • Security
TfL pulls Oyster system offline after hackers trespass into user accounts

Does the breach signal failure?

  • 09 August 2019
  • Controversy
E3 leak exposes details of more than 2,000 media types

Not fair game

  • 05 August 2019
  • Security
GitHub faces class-action lawsuit over role in Capital One breach

Plaintiffs claim firm violated the federal Wiretap Act

  • 05 August 2019
  • Friction
Capital One in 'biggest breach in banking history' as hacker boasts of conquest

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  • 30 July 2019
  • Security
Sky resets user passwords following credentials stuffing attack

Might be linked to 2014 Yahoo hack

  • 25 July 2019
  • Security
Lancaster Uni fesses up to 'sophisticated' cyberattack

Student data has been accessed to a degree

  • 23 July 2019
  • Security
Equifax to cough up $700m in FTC settlement over 2017 mega-breach

That'll surely affect its credit score

  • 22 July 2019
  • Security
Bulgaria tax agency data is now available on hacking forums

'Instakilla' shared download links for around half the compromised data

  • 19 July 2019
  • Security
Slack resets thousands of passwords following 2015 data breach

Slack, hack and crack

  • 18 July 2019
  • Security
Bulgaria tax agency hack exposes personal data of 'almost all' citizens

О, мамка му

  • 17 July 2019
  • Security
ICO continues power trip with £99m GDPR fine for Marriott International

Mega-fine related to last year's mega-breach

  • 09 July 2019
  • Security
British Airways slapped with £183m GDPR mega-fine over 2018 breach

Record penalty follows first-class security screw-up

  • 08 July 2019
  • Security
Emuparadise suffers data breach affecting 1.1 million forum members

But retro gaming website claims it's 'old news'

  • 10 June 2019
  • Controversy
Fortune 500 company Tech Data leaks 264GB of private data

Whoops

  • 07 June 2019
  • Security
TalkTalk failed to inform 4,500 customers about 2015 mega-breach

BBC probe finds customers' details were available online

  • 22 May 2019
  • Security
Docker Hub breach exposes 19,000 usernames and passwords

Bitbucket and Github access tokens for Docker autobuilds also exposed

  • 30 April 2019
  • Security
Wipro fesses up to employee account hack following 'state-sponsored' phishing campaign

Attack targeted 'at least a dozen' clients, according to insiders

  • 16 April 2019
  • Controversy
Microsoft confirms hackers had access to Outlook accounts for the past three months

Outlook, but don't touch

  • 15 April 2019
  • Controversy
Yahoo comes back with an improved offer for those enormous data breaches

Verizon prepares to get out its giant novelty chequebook

  • 10 April 2019
  • Security
Email marketing outfit exposes 809 million 'unique' personal records

Unsecured MongoDB database has since been yanked offline

  • 08 March 2019
  • Security
500px confirms 2018 data breach that exposed data on 15 million users

'Unauthorised party' framed for data exposure

  • 13 February 2019
  • Security
Hacker attempts to flog 620 million pilfered accounts on the dark web

$20,000 for, er, CoffeeMeetsBagel and Arty accounts

  • 13 February 2019
  • Security
Hackers utterly bork VFMail's US service for no clear reason

Firm says dick-move atttack caused 'catastrophic destruction'

  • 12 February 2019
  • Security
Mumsnet security boob enabled users to log in to each others' accounts

Website reports itself to ICO after upgrade leads to data breach

  • 08 February 2019
  • Security
Google Chrome extension will alert you if your accounts have been pwned

If you're using 'password 1234', the answer is probably yes

  • 06 February 2019
  • Security
ICO slaps Leave.EU and Aaron Bank's firm with £120,000 for 'serious' breaches

Watchdog also plans to audit both firms

  • 01 February 2019
  • Security
The follow-up to the Collection #1 dump is the big-budget sequel nobody asked for

Passwordageddon

  • 01 February 2019
  • Security
Airbus employee data lifted as hackers take off with virtual cargo

It looks like firm's IT department has been winging it

  • 31 January 2019
  • Security
87GB data dump contains 'largest ever' collection of breached credentials

'Collection #1' reveals more than 772 million email addresses

  • 17 January 2019
  • Controversy
NASA has been hacked, and staff data has been lifted

Houston has a problem

  • 20 December 2018
  • Controversy
Facebook's latest bug exposed the private photos of 6.8 million users

On the bright side, that's just 0.3 per cent of its users

  • 17 December 2018
  • Security
China fingered as culprit behind the Marriott data breach

US continues to blame China for attacks made against it

  • 12 December 2018
  • Security
Q&A repository Quora is the latest hack victim with 100 million records 'stolen'

Any questions?

  • 04 December 2018
  • Controversy
People aren't wasting time suing Marriott after its enormous data breach

Class action lawsuits are looking for a suite payday

  • 03 December 2018
  • Security
Marriott mega-breach exposes details of 500 million customers

And for some, that includes passport and credit card info

  • 30 November 2018
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