As per Hacker News, a Pakistani hacker who goes by the name of ‘Gnosticplayers’ – who earlier this year put the credentials of 620 million accounts from 16 websites up for sale – has claimed to have successfully breached Words With Friends to access a database of more than 218 million users. Pilfered details are said to include players’ …
Yahoo which was taken over by Verizon earlier this year, said an investigation had shown the breach went much further than originally thought. Previously the internet giant had said “more than one billion” of its accounts had been hit. The company said Subsequent to Yahoo’s acquisition by Verizon, and during integration, the company recently obtained …
CloudPets user data, possibly including children’s voice messages were hacked and held for ransom According to security researcher Troy Hunt, a series of web-connected, app-enabled toys called CloudPets have been hacked. The manufacturer’s central database was reportedly compromised over several months after stunningly poor security, despite the attempts of many researchers and journalists to inform …
At least 42,000 Irish e-mails with “.ie” domains are included in a massive data breach that has seen both logins and passwords traded amongst criminals in Russia. The accounts are part of an enormous hack that includes the credentials of 272.3 million email accounts across the world. The breach was uncovered by …
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has concluded its investigation into a data exposure issue in the New gTLD Applicant and Global Domains Division (GDD) portals blamed on several misconfigurations in the portals. The breach was first announced on 1 March 2015 where over 60 searches occurred, resulting in the unauthorized access …
Private data entered into the ICANN portals for new gTLD applicants and the GDD (Global Domains Division) was viewable in at least 36 log in sessions since April 2013, according to an ICANN statement issued on Thursday. “The results of the investigation currently indicate that the portal users were able to view data that was …