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Inside the DemandScience by Pure Incubation Data Breach

Troy Hunt

Additionally, the threat actor with… pic.twitter.com/tqsyb8plPG — HackManac (@H4ckManac) February 28, 2024 When Jason found his email address and other info in this corpus, he had the same question so many others do when their data turns up in a place they've never heard of before - how?

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Poor Passwords Tattle on AI Hiring Bot Maker Paradox.ai

Krebs on Security

As first reported by Wired , the researchers discovered that the weak password used by Paradox exposed 64 million records, including applicants’ names, email addresses and phone numbers. ” However, a review of stolen password data gathered by multiple breach-tracking services shows that at the end of June 2025, a Paradox.ai

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123456 Password Leads to McDonald’s Data Breach

Heimadal Security

From a hacked Muppet to ransomware takedowns, leaky AI at the Golden Arches, a betting breach, and SMBs sleepwalking into […] The post 123456 Password Leads to McDonald’s Data Breach appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Processing 23 Billion Rows of ALIEN TXTBASE Stealer Logs

Troy Hunt

I like to start long blog posts with a tl;dr, so here it is: We've ingested a corpus of 1.5TB worth of stealer logs known as "ALIEN TXTBASE" into Have I Been Pwned. We've also added 244M passwords we've never seen before to Pwned Passwords and updated the counts against another 199M that were already in there.

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A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

Krebs on Security

In the first step of the attack, they peppered the target’s Apple device with notifications from Apple by attempting to reset his password. The target told Michael that someone was trying to change his password, which Michael calmly explained they would investigate. “Password is changed,” the man said.

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Security expert Troy Hunt hit by phishing attack

Malwarebytes

Through an automated attack disguised as a notice from Hunts chosen newsletter provider Mailchimp, scammers stole roughly 16,000 records belonging to current and past subscribers of Hunts blog. The email claimed that Mailchimp was temporarily cutting service to Hunt because his blog had allegedly received a spam complaint.

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The danger of data breaches — what you really need to know

Webroot

If a company you do business with becomes part of a data breach, cybercriminals may have full access to your confidential information. Unfortunately, data breaches are on the rise and affecting more companies and consumers than ever. billion people received notices that their information was exposed in a data breach.