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Cybercriminals are Oversharing with Social Media Data Breaches

SiteLock

It’s been a busy time for data breaches in the social media world with Myspace, LinkedIn and Twitter all experiencing them. In each of these cases, the cybercriminals behind the breaches were after usernames and passwords. The most commonly used passwords today are, “password” and “123456,” and it only takes a hacker.29

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News aggregator Flipboard disclosed a data breach

Security Affairs

Stolen records include names, usernames , password hashes, email addresses, and for some users digital tokens used to access Flipboard through third-party services. At the time it is not clear the extent of the breach, anyway, the company forced a password reset for all its users. ” continues the security notice. .

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Threat actors are offering for sale 550 million stolen user records

Security Affairs

Data appears to come from past data breaches, the oldest one dates back as 2012 while the latest one dates April 2020. million phone numbers that are part of Dubsmash data breach that occurred in 2018. million April 2018 Netlog.com (Twoo.com) 57 million November 2012 Dubsmash.com Phone numbers 47.1

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Yevgeniy Nikulin, Russian hacker behind Dropbox and LinkedIn hacks found guilty

Security Affairs

The Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin found guilty for LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring data breach back in 2012 and the sale of their users’ data. The Russian man stole roughly 117 million user records, including usernames, passwords, and emails.

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Security firm accidentally exposed an unprotected database with 5 Billion previously leaked records

Security Affairs

The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to a UK security firm that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko. Adobe, Last. Pierluigi Paganini.

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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

Krebs on Security

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. ” PicTrace appears to have been a service that allowed users to glean information about anyone who viewed an image hosted on the platform, such as their Internet address, browser type and version number.

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Alleged FruitFly malware creator ruled incompetent to stand trial

Malwarebytes

In 2012, as a senior soon to graduate with a physics degree, he worked on a project with faculty member Robert W. While at CWRU, he was accused of “cracking passwords” on a CWRU network. This ruling has caused some concerns in the information security community. This can take years, however.

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