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Myspace data breach: 360 million accounts affected

02

Jun

2016

Myspace has revealed in an official announcement that it was the victim of a major data breach. The incident took place a few years ago and is thought to have affected close to 360 million accounts. Myspace’s technical security team confirmed that information that was being offered on an online forum is genuine. The compromised data, which […]

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Flaws Allowed Hackers to Brute-Force Instagram Accounts

23

May

2016

Belgian bug bounty hunter Arne Swinnen discovered that malicious actors could launch brute force attacks against Instagram accounts via the official Android application and via the registration page on Instagram.com.

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Change your LinkedIn password NOW

19

May

2016

If you cast your minds back to the summer of 2012 then you’ll vaguely remember something about LinkedIn being hacked. Data was stolen and there were plenty of red faces in the social networks office, I’m sure. Despite the huge scale of the hack, LinkedIn carried on and everything slowly got back to normal. That […]

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