Tag Archives: breach

Mark Zuckerberg’s Accounts Compromised

Facebook founder, Mark ‘Zuck’ had his Twitter and Pinterest accounts compromised after the LinkedIn data breach that happened back in 2012, through the recent sale of the emerged data. It’s proof positive that one must diversify usernames and passwords, close … Continue reading

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360,213,024 Users Credentials… From MySpace?

If you re-use passwords and haven’t changed your login credentials from back when you used your MySpace page 10 years ago, then you are at risk! The login details of more than 360,213,024 MySpace accounts have been leaked on the … Continue reading

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2016 = 2015 + 10%… In Breaches!

The Identity Theft Resource Center reports that there has been a total of 269 data breaches recorded through April 19, 2016, and that more than 11.27 million records have been exposed since the beginning of the year. A data breach … Continue reading

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Did you hear about the FDIC data breach?

Thanks to DLP (data loss prevention) software, the FDIC caught 44,000 customer records getting copied to a USB drive on an employee’s last day of work. She legitimately used the customer records normally as part of her day-to-day and while … Continue reading

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Verizon Breached. Check!

Creator of the infamous Data Breach Investigations Report has themselves been breached. Contacted about the posting, Verizon Enterprise told KrebsOnSecurity that the company recently identified a security  flaw in its site that permitted hackers to steal customer contact information, and that … Continue reading

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Con Job on the Department of Justice!

A hacktivist, who had a compromised email account belonging to a DOJ employee, was poking around the DOJ portal. With the determination to get further in, and getting stopped with a challenge of needing a token code they were stuck… … Continue reading

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3.3 Million HelloKitty User Details Leaked

Parents have been advised to change the passwords for their and their kids online accounts to sanriotown, the official online community for HelloKitty. Information leaked onto the Internet comes from accounts registered at a number of other Hello Kitty sites, including … Continue reading

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Scottrade Breach

“Cybercriminals had unauthorized access to our network for a period of several months between late 2013 and early 2014” According to a Cyber Security Alert page on Scottrade, Federal investigators found indicators that prove Scottrade’s network and systems was used. … Continue reading

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T-Mobile CEO Pissed Off at Experian

Hackers took T-Mobile customer names, addresses, Social Security numbers, birthdays, and even sensitive identification numbers from the servers owned and operated by Experian. Those FIFTEEN MILLION people whom applied for a regular T-Mobile USA postpaid plan between Sept. 1, 2013 and … Continue reading

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CVS Photo – Data Breach

Credit card information collected by the independent vendor who manages and hosts CVSPhoto.com may have been compromised, and customer registrations related to online photo processing and CVSPhoto.com are completely separate from CVS.com and the pharmacies. Financial transactions on CVS.com and … Continue reading

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