Twitter has confirmed that a security breach caused Twitter Circle tweets to be accessible to everyone. Meant for a select group of people, Circle tweets were viewable to everyone for almost a month.
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The United States Marshals Services has suffered a major security breach that compromised the department's sensitive law enforcement information followed by a ransomware attack.
Software giant Atlassian recently suffered a data breach. The company blamed the incident on Envoy, a third-party workplace management services provider. However, Envoy countered this claim.
Pepsi Bottling Ventures has suffered a data breach as a result of an unknown party installing information-stealing malware on its internal systems. The breach occurred as early as December 23, 2022.
Reddit recently suffered a security breach that allowed cybercriminals to access some of its internal data and systems. The incident was a result of a successful phishing attack against the company.
Google Fi recently suffered a data breach that allowed hackers to access various data like phone numbers and account statuses. It's likely that the hack is connected to the recent T-Mobile breach.
Popular file hosting service Dropbox recently suffered a data breach that gave threat actors access to 130 of its code repositories. This was after Dropbox employees fell victim to a phishing scam.
OnePlus has suffered a second data breach in two years. In the email sent out to impacted users, the company states names, emails, contact numbers, and shipping addresses were leaked.
Slack is resetting the passwords for around 1% of accounts it believed were affected by a security incident in 2015. It applies only to accounts created before March 2015 with unchanged passwords.
The breach, which remained undetected for more than a year, allowed hackers to infect archived installers with malware. The developers recommend that users run a virus scan on their systems.
A new form of malware, dubbed 'Agent Smith', is reported to have infected around 25 million Android devices in Asian countries, as well as in the U.S., UK, and Australia, disguised as a Google tool.
The carrier has sent out a warning to its customers, saying that its personal info may have been exposed in a security breach discovered earlier this week, which the company quickly shut down.
A suspected hack on the tech company's systems reported earlier this week apparently did occur, OnePlus said. It is in the process of alerting affected users and examining stricter security measures.
Yahoo today updated its estimation of the number of accounts affected by a 2013 leak to include all 3 billion users, up from 1 billion earlier, which was already considered the largest hack ever.
Hackers who breached the network's security defenses have already leaked two episodes of its shows, along with a purported script for a new Game of Thrones episode, saying that more is "coming soon".
A group of hackers are threatening to wipe millions of iPhones, including iCloud accounts, unless Apple pays a ransom before April 7. They are demanding $75,000 worth of Bitcoins to settle the issue.
Yahoo has disclosed another severe data breach, which affected over a billion users. According to the company, the breach took place over three years ago, and is separate from September's disclosure.
Verizon - which agreed to buy Yahoo's core business for $4.83bn - is 'evaluating' its interests, after Yahoo failed to mention its massive 2014 data breach, affecting 500m users, until this week.
Yahoo has announced that a wide range of data relating to over half a billion of its users was stolen in a security breach in 2014, blaming the intrusion on an unnamed "state-sponsored actor".
Thousands of documents belonging to Asiana passengers - and some who flew with its Star Alliance partners - have been compromised in a breach attributed to "extremely poor" security on its website.
Earlier this week, attackers managed to extract user data from a deprecated server running WordPress and vBulletin, prompting Cerulean Studios, developers of Trillian, to issue a warning to users.
An undisclosed number of customers may have had their personal information, including credit card details, stolen after Acer suffered a security breach of its online store.
Myspace has become the latest subject of a data leak, with over 427 million passwords up for sale in the online underground. Passwords were not stored securely, using old, compromised standards.
Following the recent hack involving VTech, it has been uncovered that the hacker was also able to obtain the headshots and chat logs of parents and children involved.
After the Xcode blunder that happened over a month ago at Apple's App Store, hundreds of apps have recently been deleted from the store, due to their ability to record private data.
The personal details of 15 million T-Mobile customers have been stolen in a breach of a third-party credit company used to complete credit checks. The stolen data spans two years, from 2013 to 2015.
Kmart Australia has suffered a data breach, resulting in the theft of customer data along with purchase details. The company has reached out to affected customers via email.
Ashley Madison is a website that helps encourage the act of adultery, and for its illicitness, hackers took it down. But isn't infiltrating a system illegal as well?
In a recent report by the Toronto police, two people associated with the user data leak of Ashley Madison have committed suicide. They also warn about a scam that claims to delete Ashley Madison data.
After leaking the user data of infidelity website Ashley Madison, hackers have released another set of data, this time regarding internal company documents, and Avid Life Media's Noel Biderman.
Another security breach was found in Lenovo's computers. The company was found automatically reinstalling its own software even when a computer had been wiped clean on an installation of Windows.
Major UK-based smartphone retailer, Carphone Warehouse was recently attacked by cybercriminals who may now have access to the data of millions of customers including credit card details of some.
A recent White House email hack has been linked by investigators to a previous security breach at the State Department. The attackers are being linked to Russia but the investigation is ongoing.
Despite Twitter's promotion of the two-factor authentication system to improve security over accounts, Twitter's CFO himself got hacked yesterday, with the account posting over 300 spam tweets.
The fast-food chain has publicly admitted it may have been the target of hackers and credit card info may have been stolen from their systems, though they are still investigating the supposed breach.
The hackers that recently attacked Sony seem to be at it again, this time posting online internal documents that contain private finances of some of the company's top level executives.
A highly evasive trojan named 'Citadel' is now attacking password managers. It can bypass most threat detection systems to access sensitive data without the user knowing making it highly dangerous.
Apple has issued a statement regarding the latest security breach in Australia saying that iCloud has not been compromised, but the users should change their passwords to prevent any damage.
Spotify has announced that one of its customers' user data has been accessed without authorization and as a precaution will release a new version of its Android app in the next few days.
