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10 November 2015 - 15:49, by , in News, No comments
Comcast says it wasn’t hacked, but hundreds of thousands of its customers may have been, forcing the cable giant to reset passwords to email accounts of about 200,000 customers. The forced password reset came after an independent security researcher spotted an ad on a Dark Web marketplace offering 590,000 Comcast subscriber email addresses and plaintext passwords for $1000...
29 October 2015 - 23:01, by , in News, No comments
There’s another data breach to report – and it’s a big one, affecting approximately 13 million customers of the “free” web hosting company 000Webhost. The breached data, which includes customer names, emails and plaintext passwords (in other words, the passwords weren’t securely stored), has reportedly been put up for sale on underground markets. What’s worse,...
14 October 2015 - 16:36, by , in News, No comments
Beleaguered taxi firm Uber has accidentally revealed the personal data of hundreds of its drivers, exposing names, social security numbers, pictures of drivers licenses, tax forms and other sensitive information. Initially spotted by one of its drivers on Tuesday evening, the leak was reported on a dedicated Uber message board as well as the far...