Mar 29, 2017 | Data Breaches
In what appears to be the result of an FBI raid, the website ‘LeakedSource.com’ has been taken down as of about mid-January. It was a site we and other professionals referred to in order to find email addresses which might have been compromised.
Mar 23, 2017 | Cyber-Crime, CyberSecurity, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
The total number of websites compromised by cybercriminals during 2016 was 32% higher than in the previous year, according a report: “Websites Fall Victim” issued by Google. The tech leader added that this spiral of cyberattacks is unlikely to lose...
Mar 16, 2017 | Data Breaches
The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four men accused of hacking into a half-billion Yahoo email accounts. Two of the men named in the indictments worked for a unit of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) that serves as the FBI’s point of contact in Moscow on cybercrime cases.
Mar 13, 2017 | Data Breaches
Credit and debit card payments giant Verifone [NYSE: PAY] is actively investigating a breach of its internal computer networks that appears to have impacted a number of client companies running their point-of-sale solutions, according to sources. Verifone stated that...
Mar 13, 2017 | Data Breaches
US retail chain Home Depot has proposed a settlement where it agrees to pay a $25 million in relation to a point of sale data breach suffered in 2014. The incident reportedly saw the credit and debit cards of around 56 million people compromised, and may have resulted...
Feb 10, 2017 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
Hundreds of thousands of people may have had their credit card data hacked into after buying Arby’s fast food. The restaurant found that its computer systems and tills in some US stores were breached by malware, that allows attackers to remotely steal data from...
