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Canadian hacker pleads guilty in huge Yahoo hack case
A Canadian citizen has pleaded guilty to aiding Russian intelligence officers in a 2014 hack of Yahoo that exposed as many as 500 million accounts. The defendant, 22 year-old Karim Baratov, is the only arrest to come out of the Yahoo hack as the …
View More Canadian hacker pleads guilty in huge Yahoo hack caseUber faces another lawsuit over data breach
In light of Uber failing to report the massive data breach that affected potentially 57 million passengers and drivers worldwide, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a multimillion-dollar consumer protection lawsuit against the transportation company. The breach included the names and driver’s license numbers of at least 10,888 Uber drivers in Washington and, under… Read More
Congress presses Uber for answers around the data breach it tried to hide
It looks like Congress won’t be ignoring the recent thoroughly sketchy report that Uber failed to disclose — and made efforts to hide — about a data breach that affected 57 million users in 2016. On Monday, Senator Mark Warner issued a set of questions to the ride-sharing company regarding the hack and its failure to inform both regulators and its own users. Read More
1.7 million accounts hacked in 2014 Imgur data breach
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Good Guy Greg, Scumbag Steve, and their fellow meme friends had better shore up their online security.
On Friday, photo sharing community Imgur broke the news that the company was the target of a security breach in 2014. According to a company blog post, the data breach gained access to the email addresses and passwords of 1.7 million Imgur users.
On November 23, we were notified about a data breach on Imgur that occurred in 2014. While we are still actively investigating the intrusion, we wanted to inform you as quickly as possible as to what we know and what we are doing in response. More: https://t.co/qElAetGVIc
— Imgur (@imgur) November 25, 2017 Read more…
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View More 1.7 million accounts hacked in 2014 Imgur data breachImgur says 1.7M emails and passwords were breached in 2014 hack
Image-hosting site turned meme social network, Imgur, is the latest tech service to ‘fess up to a security breach. In a blog post Friday it revealed that hackers had compromised its systems in 2014, with ~1.7M emails and passwords affected. Read More
New York Attorney General launches investigation of Uber’s $100,000 hack cover-up
The revelation that Uber concealed a 2016 data breach affecting 57 million users and paid hackers to destroy the evidence is yet another PR nightmare for Uber, but it’s also a problem when it comes to state laws around data breach disclosure practices. In light of Bloomberg’s report, the office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has opened an investigation. Read More
Uber data breach from 2016 affected 57 million riders and drivers
Uber faced a data breach in 2016 that affected some 57 million customers, including both riders and drivers, revealing their names, email address and phone numbers. That affected group included 50 million riders and 7 million drivers; around 600,…
View More Uber data breach from 2016 affected 57 million riders and driversUS charges Iranian hacker for stealing unaired episodes of hit HBO shows
While it didn’t dampen enthusiasm for everyone’s favorite dragon-oriented political drama, HBO certainly wasn’t happy when the major twists from the seventh season of its hottest show popped up online before they aired. According to a newly released indictment, an Iranian man named Behzad Mesri faces charges for the hack. Read More
$31 million worth of Tether stolen in latest crypto heist
Crypto hackers are at it again.
According to Tether, a company that’s behind the cryptocurrency of the same name (known by the symbol USDT), someone recently stole nearly $31 million from its digital vault.
The announcement, together with…
A remote-controlled vibrator secretly recorded user’s entire sex session. Eek.
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Welp. Here’s another scenario to add to your list of terrifying ways a remote-controlled vibrator can turn against you.
In a post Wednesday, Redditor tydoctor detailed a deeply disturbing incident related to the Lovense remote-controlled vibrator app:
“I was going through my phone media to prepare it for a factory reset and came across a .3gp file named “tempSoundPlay.3gp” in the folder for the App. The file was a FULL audio recording 6 minutes long of the last time I had used the app to control my SO’s remote control vibrator (We used it at a bar while playing pool).”
The app, which can be used to control several sex toys made by Lovense, does apparently ask for permission to access the phone’s mic and camera, but it’s only supposed to be used for the in-app chat — so users can send voice commands to the person controlling the remote from afar. Read more…
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Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack
Eyeing more secure alternatives to social security numbers, lawmakers in the U.S. are looking abroad. Today, the Senate Commerce Committee questioned former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Verizon Chief Privacy Officer Karen Zacharia, and both the current and former CEOs of Equifax on how to protect consumers against major data breaches. The consensus was that social security numbers have got to… Read More