Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

.” Webkinz were originally released by the Canadian toy company Ganz on April 29, 2005. A hacker has leaked the usernames and passwords of nearly 23 million players of Webkinz World on a well-known hacking forum. . pic.twitter.com/ZSicQcoUMK — Under the Breach (@underthebreach) April 18, 2020.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. w s, icamis[.]ru ru , and icamis[.]biz.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2023

The availability of the archive was reported by the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned , which notified Zecks. According to HIBP, the records in the database contain names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, usernames, and passwords stored as unsalted SHA-256 hashes. ” reported HIBP.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 3, 2025

Similarly, the states Information Security Breach and Notification Act (2005) was one of the earliest breach notification laws in the U.S., The SHIELD Act: Strengthening New Yorks Data Security The SHIELD Act , passed in 2019, builds on New Yorks earlier Information Security Breach and Notification Act (2005).

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

As a member of the club, he competed in a local programming competition, helping the team to win in both 2005 and 2006. While at CWRU, he was accused of “cracking passwords” on a CWRU network. Despite this, he was active in extracurricular activities. In high school, he participated in a computer club.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

A young woman plays on the Electronic Arts (EA) newest product “Sims2 – Nightlife” at a Computer Gaming Convention on August 18, 2005 in Leipzig, Germany. Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images). The post Attacks against game companies are up.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. A DSW data breach also exposes transaction information from 1.4

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. Now think about the type of data you enter when you create a new account on a website. You are often required to provide your email address, date of birth, first and last name, and a password.

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Elie

DECEMBER 20, 2018

reuse of passwords found in data breaches and phishing attacks. in 2005 and TOTP in. Performing a longitudinal analysis highlights that the adoption rate of 2FA (two-factor authentication) has been mostly stagnant over the last five years, despite the ever increasing number of accounts hijacked due to the.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 20, 2024

The authorization can be associated with specific hardware, shared encryption keys, passwords, and more. This primary benefit extends to third-party partners to limit use and prevent damage from data breaches or attempts to illegally distribute or access the content. Minimize resistance with a non-disruptive DRM experience.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It really didn’t concern commercial organizations until the late 1990s, until the widespread use of the World Wide Web made it possible for organizations to suffer data breaches or denial of service attacks. If the user stores passwords in a browser, we got that, if the user is the local admin, that's even better.

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