Brian Thompson, the slain CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down on Wednesday while top executives at his company have reportedly been under investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for alleged insider trading and a monopoly…
Personal Data of 3 Billion People Stolen in Hack, Suit Says…
Jerico Pictures Inc., a background-check company doing business as National Public Data, exposed the personal information of nearly 3 billion individuals in an April data breach, a proposed class action says…
23andMe Blames “Negligent” Breach Victims, Says It’s Their Own Fault…
It’s your fault. It’s always the users fault. Never the corporations or companies responsibility for failing to protect their users credentials from being hacked…
Huge Data Leak of 1 Billion Records Exposes China’s Vast Surveillance State…
One billion resident records were allegedly siphoned from a police database…
Robinhood Says a Hacker Who Tried to Extort the Company Accessed Data for 7M Customers…
No Social Security or bank card numbers were accessed, the company said…
Massive MGM Data Breach: Guests’ Personal Details Posted on Hacking Site…
An MGM Resorts security breach last summer resulted in the personal details of 10.6 million guests published on a hacking forum this week, ZDNet first reported Wednesday. Why it matters: Federal government employees and high-profile guests were affected by the breach, according to analysis by data breach monitoring service Under the Breach and ZDNet — […]
Dem Group Exposed Millions of Email Addresses in ‘Clinton’ File…
A cybersecurity firm revealed this week that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee left more than 6.2 million email addresses exposed in an online public “storage bucket” that may have pertained to Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign. The data breach research team at the firm Upguard discovered the files last month. They apparently showed that an employee […]
Photos of Travelers Coming in and Out of the U.S. Have Been Hacked And Stolen…
A US Customs and Border Protection subcontractor suffered a data breach that exposed the photos of tens of thousands of travelers coming in and out of the United States, the agency revealed Monday, in what it described as a “malicious cyber-attack.” The database of identifying traveler photos and license plate images had been transferred to […]
Hacker Finds He Can Remotely Kill Car Engines After Breaking Into GPS Tracking Apps…
A hacker broke into thousands of accounts belonging to users of two GPS tracker apps, giving him the ability to monitor the locations of tens of thousands of vehicles and even turn off the engines for some of them while they were in motion, Motherboard has learned. The hacker, who goes by the name L&M, […]
MyHeritage Says over 92 Million User Accounts Have Been Compromised…
MyHeritage, the Israel-based DNA testing service designed to investigate family history, has disclosed that the company website was breached last year by unknown attackers, who stole login credentials of its more than 92 million customers. The company learned about the breach on June 4, 2018, after an unnamed security researcher discovered a database file named […]