Carphone Warehouse has announced it has suffered from a sophisticated security breach wherein data of up to 2.4 million customers including bank details may have been accessed. The breach was detected on…
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UCLA Health becomes victim of cyber attack; data of 4.5 million individuals at risk
UCLA Health has officially revealed that it has been a victim of a cyber attack – possibly a criminal one – wherein attackers may have stolen data of as many as 4.5…
Adult FriendFinder hacked; data of millions of users compromised
Popular dating website, Adult FriendFinder, has been hit by a massive data breach attack which has comprised personal details of more than 4 million users of the website’s 64 million users. According…
Cyber breaches will cost global economy over £1.3bn by 2019: Report
Cyber breaches will cost the global economy more than £1.3bn by 2019, increasing to almost four times the estimated cost of breaches in 2015, a new study claims. According to Juniper Research,…
Slack admits facing security breach in February
Popular work communications app Slack on Friday admitted to having faced a four day long security breach attack in February. “We were recently able to confirm that there was unauthorized access to…
Twitch advises users to reset login passwords in wake of a possible data breach
Amazon’s game streaming service Twitch has warned its users of a possible security breach which may have compromised account information including username and password, IP address, login information, limited credit card information…
TalkTalk acknowledges data breach
UK broadband provider TalkTalk has admitted to have faced a data breach which left data of thousands of its customers vulnerable to fraud. The company said the data breach comprised on users’…
Microsoft: Leak of Minecraft players’ personal details cannot be attributed to a hacking attack
Microsoft, on Wednesday, refuted reports which claimed a security breach at developer Mojang had compromised personal details of more than 18,000 Minecraft players. Redmond said that no Mojang.net services have been compromised…
JPMorgan Chase data breach could have been avoided with a simple fix, new report claims
The security breach which affected JPMorgan Chase & Co earlier this year could have been avoided if the bank had employed a simple security fix to a server in its vast network,…
Sony threatens Twitter of legal consequences over tweets with leaked hacking details
Still struggling with the devastating hacking attack which led to massive disclosure of stolen email information, Sony has threatened to sue Twitter if it does not stop its users from tweeting information…
Sony pulls ‘The Interview’ social media pages, but assures movie’s return
Sony has pulled all social media pages related to ‘The Interview’ just days after pulling the plug on the theatrical release of “The Interview” after it suffered a major security breach supposedly…
Sony taps FireEye’s Mandiant forensics unit to cleanup post cyber-attack mess
Sony has reportedly tapped in FireEye Inc’s Mandiant forensics unit to clean up the mess resulting out of the hacking attack which left all of its computer systems inaccessible last week. According…
Details of 2.7 million HSBC customers compromised in latest hack
Details of 2.7 million HSBC Turkey customers may have been compromised in a confirmed security breach that was spotted sometime last week by bank’s internal security team. HSBC in a statement has…
Dropbox denies hack: says user data is safe
Cloud storage service Dropbox has scoffed recent security breach reports, which claim its accounts have been hacked and hackers have passwords and usernames in their possession. The reaction from Dropbox comes after…
Snapchat not to be blamed for ‘the Snappening’ event: Snapsaved
More than 100,000 Snapchat photos and videos were leaked online on 4chan forum last week after a third-party Snapchat client was hit by a major privacy breach. On Sunday around 13 gigabytes…