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News of yet another years-old social media site hack surfaced over the weekend when it was learned that hackers infiltrated the European social network VK.com at some point over the last several years and made off with credentials for 100 million of its users. Breach notification site LeakedSource touted the breach on Sunday, claiming it was selling...
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the back and forth around whether or not TeamViewer was hacked, the fallout around the years-old MySpace and Tumblr breaches, and a 90K Windows zero day.
Information on nearly 14 million users of 000webhost, a Lithuanian web hosting service, was spilled earlier this year when a hacker exploited an old version of the company’s website and gained access to the backend. 13.5 million customer usernames, plaintext passwords, email addresses, IP addresses, and names were exposed as part of the breach, according...
Discount brokerage firm Scottrade began firing off emails late last week, warning customers that as a result of a breach, their names and street addresses may have been stolen from its system. Scottrade’s statement on the incident, published on its site last Thursday doesn’t exactly rule out that more sensitive information, such as users’ Social Security...