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800,000 Brazzers porn site accounts exposed in huge, throbbing hack
Nearly 800,000 emails, passwords and usernames attributed to accounts on the Brazzers porn site forum have been leaked. Originally reported to Motherboard by vigilante.pw, a breach monitoring watchdog, the hack contained over 900,000 individual records. Aside from inactive or duplicate accounts, that meant some 790,724 unique email addresses, usernames and plaintext passwords are now out in the ether.
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Mom discovers security cameras hacked, kids' bedroom livestreamed
A mother in Houston, Texas woke up one morning to pretty much every parent's worst-case scenario. "I happened to get a text from a friend of mine that said she saw a picture on Facebook and she thought it was a picture of our daughters' room," Jennifer, who asked to keep her last name private, told ABC subchannel KTRK. As it turned out, the security cameras she'd installed in her daughter's room to keep them safe had been hacked and the footage had been uploaded on the internet to livestream.
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Census website attacked by hackers, ABS claims
The census website was shut down after being attacked by foreign hackers, the Australian Bureau of Statistics says.
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Thieves use chip-and-pin cards to steal up to $50k from ATMs
Touted as a safer solution to magnetic stripe cards, it seems the chip-and-pin (or EMV) counterpart might not be as secure as we once thought. After retailers around the globe made the switch to the new technology we’re now uncovering vulnerabilities in the cards that make them only marginally superior to their predecessor. A new ATM hack demonstration shows just how vulnerable they are. In the demonstration, hackers were able to use a common chip-and-pin card to withdraw money from an ATM in under 15 minutes.
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Taiwan bank ATMs spew out millions after hack
Taiwan is trying to figure out how hackers managed to trick a network of bank ATMs into spitting out millions. Police said several people wearing masks attacked dozens of ATMs operated by Taiwan's First Bank on Sunday. They spent a few minutes at each of the machines before making off with the equivalent of $2 million stashed in a backpack. They didn't use bank cards but rather appeared to gain control of the machines with a "connected device," possibly a smartphone, the police said in a statement Thursday.
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Baton Rouge police database 'hacked' in retaliation for killing of Alton Sterling
Just days after the fatal shooting of a black man by Baton Rouge police prompted international outrage and a Justice Department investigation, the Baton Rouge city government's servers have been "hacked" and 50,000 city police records leaked online including names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers. A hacker named @0x2Taylor claimed responsibility for accessing the database on Thursday afternoon. It is unclear whether Taylor accessed the data himself or was given it by a third-party and took credit.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts hacked, LinkedIn password dump likely to blame
Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg understandably has accounts on other social networks – it only makes sense to keep up with what the competition is up to. But that doesn't mean he bothers to maintain standard security practices on non-Facebook properties. This weekend, his Twitter and Pinterest accounts were hacked. The group responsible, OurMine Team, also claimed to have gained accessed to his zuck Instagram account...
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Does Dropbox's Data Breach Scare Check Out?
Leaks at LinkedIn, Myspace, and Tumblr all came to light recently.
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MySpace might have been hacked, and more than 427 million users might be effected
There may finally be a reason to return to your MySpace account, but it's not because Tom's old social network is back in vogue; more than 427 million passwords have reportedly been stolen from the site. According to LeakedSource, a paid hacked data search engine, the web's social network of choice appears to have been the victim of the largest database leaks ever recorded. LeakedSource is currently hosting a database of 427,484,128 passwords and 360,213,024 million email addresses that have been linked to MySpace.
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LinkedIn login emails, passwords for more than 100 million users posted online for sale
More than 100 million LinkedIn users might be more vulnerable Wednesday, after their email and passwords have been uploaded online and reportedly for sale. LinkedIn issued a statement saying it is aware of the situation, but added that this is not a new data breach as the information was taken during a hack in 2012. “Yesterday, we became aware of an additional set of data that had just been released,” LinkedIn said in its statement.
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'60 Minutes' hacks congressman's phone for security report
“60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi traveled to Berlin, where she interviewed a team of hackers who are looking for vulnerabilities in mobile phone systems so they can warn the public of the risks they face. The program sent an iPhone to Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), a member of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Information Technology, who agreed to use it knowing it would be hacked. The results were startling.
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Megabreach: 55 MILLION voters' details leaked in Philippines
A massive data breach appears to have left 55 million Philippine voters at much greater risk of identity fraud and more. Security researchers warn that the entire database of the Philippines’ Commission on Elections (COMELEC) has been exposed in what appears to be the biggest government related data breach in history. The COMELEC website was compromised and defaced on 27 March by Anonymous Philippines before a second hacker group, LulzSec Pilipinas posted...
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FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years
The feds warned that “a group of malicious cyber actors,” whom security experts believe to be the government-sponsored hacking group known as APT6, “have compromised and stolen sensitive information from various government and commercial networks” since at least 2011, according to an FBI alert obtained by Motherboard.
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Database allegedly containing ID numbers of 50m Turks posted online
A database posted online allegedly contains the personal information of 49 million people on the Turkish citizenship database, potentially making more than half of the population of the country vulnerable to identity theft and massive privacy violations. The database, which has not been verified as authentic, was posted to a server apparently hosted in Romania on Monday with an introduction reading “Who would have imagined that backwards ideologies, cronyism and rising...
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Hacker claims he helped swing Mexican election
A Bloomberg Businessweek report centered on a Colombian online campaign strategist alleges he hacked political rivals to engineer results in elections across nine Latin American countries. The man, Andrés Sepúlveda, is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for offences related to hacking during Colombia's 2014 presidential election. But talking to Bloomberg, he alleges that his involvement in politics in the region runs...
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Dwolla Hit with Fine by CFPB Over Phishing Vulnerability
Dwolla fined by CFPB over phishing vulnerability
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Life after the Ashley Madison affair
It’s six months since hackers leaked the names of 30 million people who had used the infidelity website Ashley Madison. Resignations, divorces and suicides followed. Tom Lamont sifts through the wreckage
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Hackers Post Confidential Records of 4,000 Palm Beach County Cops, Prosecutors, and Judges
About 4,000 confidential records — the purported home addresses of police officers, lawyers, and judges — have been published on the website PBSOTalk.com, and the former owner of the website is blaming it on Russian computer hackers. Mark Dougan is a former Palm Beach Sheriff's Office deputy. After leaving the force in 2008, he made it his mission to expose corruption within the department.
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Teen Allegedly Behind CIA, FBI Breaches: 'They're Trying to Ruin My Life.'
The months-long series of hacks and pranks by a group of alleged teenage hackers on the US government and its high-level officials might have finally come to an end. Police authorities in the UK, working in conjunction with the FBI, have arrested a teenager who they believe is behind the cyberattacks that started last year, when a group of hackers broke into the AOL email account of CIA Director John Brennan. Officials have not released the identity...
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IRS Electronic Filing PIN Application Hacked
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