A security researcher has found a flaw in Snapchat which allows hackers to crash users' phones through DoS attacks. This comes only months after 4.6 million accounts were breached through the app.
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16 million email addresses and passwords that are based in Germany have reportedly been exposed due to a malware attack that infected computers in the country.
The Syrian Electronic Army hacker group claims that it "didn't finish our attack" on Microsoft, while the company has admitted the SEA hacked into a "small number" of its email accounts.
After several days of being shut down, Microsoft's official Skype blogs are back online after being hit with a cyber attack by the Syrian Electronic Army that defaced the site.
Microsoft is still not allowing access to their official Skype blogs one day after an attack by a hacker group defaced the site, along with highjacking their Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Retailer Target has now confirmed that "encrypted PIN data" was taken as part of the recent theft of 40 million credit card numbers from its database, but added the encryption key has not been removed
Retailer Target has announced that 40 million credit card numbers have been taken from its database, with the incidents starting on November 27th and continuing through December 15th.
Facebook has admitted today that a number of its employees had their laptops infected with malware due to a "zero day" Java exploit. Facebook says the company's user data was not affected.
The hacker group known as GNAA has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that has infected thousands of Tumblr sites with racist messages. Tumblr is still working to fix the issue.
A South Carolina employee who clicked on a link in an email was the first step for hackers to later obtain millions of Social Security numbers and bank accounts from the state's servers.
The South Carolina Department of Revenue has announced that a cyber attack has exposed over 3.6 million of the state's Social Security numbers, along with 387,000 credit and debit card numbers.
Dramatic title is dramatic; but is it time for a little scaremongering? Time to remind casual users that you can do more to protect your online presence? We think we can never remind you enough of it.
When Dropbox customers starting receiving Spam on email addresses used only for that service, it seemed likely that they too had fallen victim to a server breach, as it turns out, nope!
Eight million passwords and email addresses from the Gamigo online gaming service founded their way to a public website earlier in July, after the company announced their servers had been hacked.
Dropbox is the latest target for hackers. As well as an (unrelated) outage in some countries of Europe, users also suffered a large scale spam attack, just to add insult to injury
The European division of Riot Games' League of Legends has admitted that one or more hackers have gained access to their personal player database. No financial information was accessed.
The official LinkedIn blog made a rare weekend post for an update on how it the company is dealing with its recent security breach that caused over 6 million passwords to be leaked to the Internet.
eHarmony is the latest website to fall victim to data theft, this time around 1.5 million passwords were stolen, or according to the online dating website: "a small fraction of our user base".
Some LinkedIn accounts that were lifted from the company's servers in a cyber attack are already being used by criminals to send emails that link to scam websites.
A new report claims that a poster on a Russian message board has released over 6.4 million hashed passwords from LinkedIn members, with over 300,000 of the weaker passwords already cracked.
Cryptic Studios has confirmed that a cyber attack occurred back in 2010 on the game developers' online servers and that personal information might have been disclosed.
Credit card companies Visa and MasterCard have reported that a data breach at a US-based processor has recently occurred and may have exposed up to 10 million credit card numbers.
A cyber attack on the dating web site militarysingles.com has been claimed by a hacker group that calls itself LulzSec, a few weeks after the leader of that group assisted law enforcement teams.
Microsoft has now admitted that financial information may have been exposed in a recent cyber attack on the Microsoft India Store web site.
The newly launched software security firm CrowdStrike has said that Windows Phone device cannot be affected by the exploit it discovered on Android-based smartphones last week.
A newly revealed software security firm claims it has found a bug in Android-based smartphones that could leave them open to attack and have them controlled by outside users.
The official web site for the NASDAQ stock market was hit by a denial of service attack on Tuesday that kept the site shut down for several hours. Trading on the stock exchange was not affected.
A new report claims that Nortel's PC network was breached by Chinese hackers for years and that Nortel not only knew about the problem but failed to report it when it went into bankruptcy in 2009.
The hacker group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for shutting down the Central Intelligence Agency's web site today in just the latest chapter in its series of cyber attacks.
More information about a cyber attack on Steam has been revealed, including word that those responsible may have accessed a backup file with Steam transaction information.
The hacker group Anonymous has continued its run of cyber attacks inspired by the Megaupload shutdown by hacking and defacing the Federal Trade Commission's online security site
The official web site for the mixed martial arts company UFC was the victim of a cyber attack on Sunday, apparently due to the organization's support of SOPA and PIPA.
The hacker group Anonymous continued their cyber attack war on a number of web sites due to the raid on the Megaupload site, claiming they briefly shut down the CBS.com web site on Sunday.
Symantec has now admitted that the source code obtained by hackers for its line of anti-virus software was obtained in 2006 from its own servers, rather than from a third party.
The online retailer Zappos has announced that one of its databases was the victim of a cyber attack with the personal information of over 24 million customers exposed.
The security firm Stratfor has sent an email to customers affected by the cyber attack on its services by Anonymous, offering free identity theft protection services for a year.
Anonymous has taken credit for yet another cyber attack that resulted in the group taking credit card numbers. This time the victim was SpecialForces.com which sells military themed items.
A new warning from the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team claims to have found an exploit in the WiFi Protected Setup that could cause cyber attacker to figure out WiFi passwords.
A new report claims that the cyber attack on the security think tank Stratfor by Anonymous resulted in over 50,000 credit card numbers, among other data, being stolen from the company's server.
The hacker group Anonymous is the likely suspect in a new cyber attack on the security-based organization Stratfor. Credit card information was allegedly stolen as part of the attack.
