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Thousands of Players Upset After Michigan Lottery Password Reset
Some lottery players in Michigan were disgruntled to find their accounts inaccessible after the state lottery pushed a site update in mid-August 2020. The website of the lottery implemented a new security update on... Read more
Watch Out for the 'Fix Incoming Email Issues' Email Aimed at Outlook Users
Unfortunately, emails that try to trick you into giving away your login credentials have become so common, that they are now a part of our everyday online existence. Most of these campaigns are not incredibly... Read more
235 Million Accounts of Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Users Have Been Exposed
On August 1, Comparitech's security researchers found a database that held tons of personal information and was accessible from anywhere in the world without any form of authentication. Led by Bob Diachenko, the team... Read more
HBO, Netflix, Twitch, and YouTube Warn About an Increase in Scams
Yesterday, Forbes published the list of the best-paid actors of 2020. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson tops it with total earnings of just under $90 million. You might be wondering why we're posting these statistics on this... Read more
Zello Users Are Forced to Reset Passwords After a Data Breach Is Discovered
Zello is a push-to-talk application with more than 100 million users all around the world. Its creators have also developed a version for police officers, firefighters, and paramedics who can use it for instant... Read more
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Struggles to Kick Hackers Out of Its Twitter Account
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's (EBRD) social media team had an eventful day yesterday. It all started in the morning when they woke up to a couple of hacked Twitter accounts. An... Read more
Tech Company Garmin Pays Millions After Ransomware Attack
Garmin, a brand associated with a lot of different GPS systems and sports equipment, reportedly paid millions of dollars of ransom after hackers infected its systems with ransomware in late July 2020. According to... Read more
Here We Go Again: Experian Responsible for a Data Breach That Affects 24 Million
As it turns out, you don't always need to breach an organization's security in order to gain unauthorized access to a vast trove of information. Experian, a multi-national credit reporting bureau, proved that... Read more
Another Day, Another Healthcare Data Breach: Adit Left 3.1 Million Patients' Records Exposed
Putting millions of people's data in a poorly configured database is a mistake that far too many organizations make. When the exposure is found, however, the people at fault must ensure that the problem is properly... Read more
ProctorU Disclosed a Major Data Breach That Might Have Leaked the Passwords of Over 440,000 People
In response to an Australian student magazine by the name of Honi Soit, ProctorU announced on Twitter that it has suffered a data breach. Later, the provider of proctoring solutions for online exams issued an official... Read more
Travel Management Company CWT Pays $4.5M to Have Its Files Unlocked
There are countless studies that use a wide spectrum of different methods to calculate the costs of a ransomware attack for the victim. These research papers take a host of factors into consideration, but the picture... Read more
Researchers Attribute Two Targeted Ransomware Attacks to the Lazarus Hacking Group
Hollywood would have you believe that hoodie-wearing teenage hackers can bring down entire corporate giants worth billions of dollars from the discomfort of their parents' basement. In the real world, however, things... Read more
Qbot's New Version Can Hijack Email Threads
The online threat landscape is a very peculiar place. It shifts and changes all the time, and we see new names come in while old ones drop out every single day. In light of all this, you might expect that a malware... Read more
Emails and Passwords of Millions of Flaticon and Freepik Users Have Been Exposed
You can learn a lot about a company's attitude towards security in the wake of a data breach. You can see how it handled it in the past, how it's dealing with it at the moment, and how far in the future it casts its... Read more
350 Million Emails Have Been Found in a Bucket That Might Have Been Exposed Since 2018
When you enter your email address in a registration form, are you really sure where it will end up? The answer is 'no, you're not.' You might think that only the service provider you're creating an account with will... Read more
What Is the Meow Bot and How Can Strong Passwords Help Protect Yourself Against It?
In early-July, a team of security researchers led by Bob Diachenko discovered a database full of 1.2TB of personal user information. It contained anything from emails and plaintext passwords to names, physical... Read more
Belarusian Authorities Arrest a GandCrab Ransomware Distributor
On May 31, 2019, the creators of the GandCrab ransomware announced their retirement. In a post published on a hacking forum, they bragged extensively about how much money they and their clients had made and claimed... Read more
Dave Users' Login Credentials Get Leaked After a Third-Party Breach
According to its About us page, Dave is a financial app created after some friends got together and decided to make the online banking experience more pleasant for US citizens. The same page rather boldly claims that... Read more
