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SEC Sanctions Several Companies over Email Account Hacking

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SEC insisted Cetera was responsible for exposing the personal data of more than 4,300 clients and customers between 2017 November and 2020 June. During that timeframe, unapproved third parties gained unauthorized access into over 60 email accounts hosted in the cloud belonging to Cetera Employees.

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Hundreds of Instagram accounts were hijacked in a coordinated attack

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As we investigate this issue, we wanted to share the below guidance to help keep your account secure: If you received an email from us notifying you of a change in your email address, and you did not initiate this change – please click the link marked ‘revert this change’ in the email, and then change your password. and &).

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Password checkup: from 0 to 650, 000 users in 20 days

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On February 5th, for Safer Internet Day, our team. Password Checkup. Password checkup allows users to check, in a privacy-preserving manner, whether their username and password matches one of the more than 4B+ credentials exposed by third-party data breaches of which Google is aware. How Password Checkup came into being.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

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held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. And Lamb later found evidence that the election-related files he found were all deleted from the server on March 2, 2017. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? Very strange, right?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. And Lamb later found evidence that the election-related files he found were all deleted from the server on March 2, 2017. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? Very strange, right?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. And Lamb later found evidence that the election-related files he found were all deleted from the server on March 2, 2017. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? Very strange, right?

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