2012 Authentication Data breaches Passwords 
Malwarebytes
DECEMBER 21, 2021
This enormous injection of used passwords has puffed up the world’s largest publicly available password database by 38%, according to Hunt. HIBP) allows users to type in an email address, phone number or password and find out how many times they’ve been involved in a data breach. Have I Been Pwned?’.
Malwarebytes
OCTOBER 3, 2022
I have an embarrassing confession to make: I reuse passwords. I am not a heavy re-user, nothing crazy, I use a password manager to handle most of my credentials but I still reuse the odd password from time to time. It seems obvious and important therefore to tell users not to reuse passwords.
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Krebs on Security
JANUARY 8, 2024
Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. KrebsOnSecurity began researching Icamis’s real-life identity in 2012, but failed to revisit any of that research until recently.
Malwarebytes
JUNE 30, 2021
In a statement, Privacy Shark garnered from Leonna Spilman, who spoke on behalf of LinkedIn, the company claims there is really no breach: “While we’re still investigating this issue, our initial analysis indicates that the dataset includes information scraped from LinkedIn as well as information obtained from other sources.
SecureWorld News
MARCH 24, 2022
Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows. SecureWorld News takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Who attacked: no attacker.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
The advertising for the sale of the huge trove of data was published in the popular Dream Market black marketplace, data are available for less than $20,000 worth of Bitcoin. Spokespersons for MyHeritage and 500px confirmed the authenticity of the data. The data doesn’t include financial information.
SecureWorld News
DECEMBER 29, 2020
Now headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks and data breaches pour into social media feeds at a steady drumbeat. SecureWorld now takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Equifax data breach (2017).
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