If you have a T-Mobile account, it may be time to change your password. The company last week issued a statement confirming a data breach wherein the personal information of almost 50 million current, former, and prospective customers had been breached. Late last week, T-Mobile confirmed that a forum post that purported to offer data from more […]
If you weren’t enamored with LinkedIn before, you’re not going to love this. A group of hackers are currently selling the personal information over more than 700 million LinkedIn users. Here are the data types that were leaked: Email Addresses; Full names; Phone numbers; Physical addresses; Geolocation records; LinkedIn username and profile URL; Personal and professional experience/background; Genders; Other social media accounts and […]
Following the discovery of the Capital One hack on July 19th, in which Capital One Bank’s accounts on the Amazon Web Services cloud were hacked by an AWS engineer who took advantage of a misconfigured firewall and stole data, approximately 100 million people in the United States and 6 million people in Canada are affected. […]
In these days of massive data breaches and multi-step authentication, perhaps the best question is whether your accounts have been breached in the first place? On Sunday, notable computer maven, philosopher and all-around wise human being Dirk A. Keaton pointed out the mighty haveibeenpwned.com, an aggregator web site that compiles breaches, lets people enter their […]
There’s no grey area to be had here: It’s time to reset the password on your Twitter account. This advice hails from Twitter itself, which discovered an internal bug that essentially stored passwords unmasked Twitter has stated that there was no known breach of this info and offered the following comment: