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Flipboard Resets User Passwords in Response to Data Breach

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May

2019

According to Flipboard, hackers had access to its systems for nearly 10 months, between June 2, 2018 and March 23, 2019, and again on April 21-22, 2019. The breach was discovered on April 23 when its engineering team noticed suspicious activity in the environment housing the targeted databases. The compromised databases stored names, usernames, password […]

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Millions of Facebook Passwords Kept in Plain Text for Employees to Access

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Mar

2019

Perhaps we should all change our Facebook passwords to play it safe, following news that Facebook kept, from as early as 2012, “hundreds of millions” of user account passwords in plain text, making them available to some 20,000 employees, writes KrebsOnSecurity following a tip from a source at Facebook. According to Brian Krebs, Facebook is […]

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How to spot if your password was stolen in a security breach

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Feb

2019

In mid-January, researcher Troy Hunt revealed that a list was floating around in the storage space of the MEGA cloud as well as in several hacking forums. Going by the name of Collection#1, it contains the largest theft of passwords organized into a list to date, comprising more than 700 million email addresses and more […]

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