Breach articles

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  LivingSocial hack reveals 50 million customer names, email addresses, and birthdates (update)

  By Dante D'Orazio on April 26, 2013 04:28 pm + 13 comments

  Another high-profile hack has hit the internet: this time, daily deal website LivingSocial is the Continue reading…

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  Sony hacker gets year in prison for involvement in 2011 data breach (update)

  By Chris Welch on April 18, 2013 03:41 pm + 20 comments

  Cody Kretsinger, a hacker affiliated with LulzSec, has been sentenced to a yearlong prison term for Continue reading…

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  EU proposal would require companies to disclose the loss of your personal information

  By Nathan Ingraham on January 16, 2013 04:30 pm + 6 comments

  The European Commission is currently drafting a plan that will standardize reporting requirements Continue reading…

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  NASA finally demands encryption on employee machines after another laptop is stolen

  By Dante D'Orazio on November 14, 2012 07:51 pm + 21 comments

  A NASA employee's laptop containing "personally identifiable information" was stolen from a locked Continue reading…

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  NYT: LinkedIn security breach could have been prevented with simple security measures

  By Kimber Streams on June 11, 2012 10:37 am + 20 comments

  Last week's breach at LinkedIn resulted in the leak of 6.46 million user passwords, but with some Continue reading…

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  PSA: League of Legends reports EU security breach, change your password

  By Sean Hollister on June 9, 2012 12:45 am + 24 comments

  LinkedIn, Twitter, eHarmony, and Last.fm recently fell to hackers, and now it's League of Legends' Continue reading…

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  LinkedIn hacked: over six million passwords compromised and published

  By Chris Welch on June 7, 2012 08:45 pm

  Professional networking site LinkedIn suffered a major security breach on June 6th, 2012 that Continue reading…

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  LinkedIn: 'No email logins have been published' following password leak, law enforcement investigating

  By Chris Welch on June 7, 2012 07:46 pm + 17 comments

  LinkedIn has yet to receive any reports of unauthorized account access after 6.5 million user p Continue reading…

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  LinkedIn investigating reports that 6.46 million hashed passwords have leaked online (update)

  By Aaron Souppouris on June 6, 2012 08:32 am + 126 comments

  UPDATE: LinkedIn confirms hacking. Read more here. A user in a Russian forum is claiming to have Continue reading…

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  Twitter investigating giant password leak, suggests it may be much ado about nothing

  By Sean Hollister on May 8, 2012 08:43 pm + 13 comments

  It looked like a massive breach: yesterday, a tremendous list of over 56,000 Twitter IDs and Continue reading…