Amazon has reset some customers’ passwords and asked them to change them, according to reports. Amazon says that during “routine monitoring,” it stumbled on a set of email and password sets posted online. Amazon isn’t the only online service to check for reused user credentials: both Facebook and Netflix prowl the internet looking for your […]
Reddit announced it would require users to reset their passwords following the release of a dataset containing 100 million LinkedIn emails and password combinations from a 2012 breach. While Reddit did not refer directly mention the release of LinkedIn data, founding engineer Christopher Slowe (KeyserSosa) stated that the decision was prompted by “a general uptick […]
The overseer of the Internet’s addressing system said Wednesday that someone obtained information related to user accounts for its public website, although no financial information was divulged. #icann, short for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, said user names, email addresses, encrypted #passwords and other #data, such as bios, interests and newsletter subscriptions, […]
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