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AI-focused recruitment platform exposes half a million job seekers

PII, passports and ID documents left exposed in misconfigured Google Cloud Storage bucket.

TechRadar · Nov 15, 2024

Learner driver data exposed in worrying breach - thousands affected

A Brazilian driving school kept an unprotected database online, exposing hundreds of thousands of people.

TechRadar · Oct 30, 2024

Millions affected in major health data breach caused by a missing password

A huge database was found sitting online without a password, offering sensitive user data to anyone who found it.

TechRadar · Oct 23, 2024

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Are the new Google Pixel phones spying on you?

Google denies it, but researchers found that the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL shares your private data with the provider every 15 minutes. Yet, there is still something you can do to take agency back over your data.

TechRadar · Oct 22, 2024

Hundreds of thousands of CVs leaked - here's what we know

A company kept its database unprotected on the internet, leaving hundreds of thousands of CVs open.

TechRadar · Oct 17, 2024

Google denies claims that your Pixel phone sends it private data 4 times an hour

The tech giant has refuted claims that Pixel phones provide it with user location, network status, and other identifying information in addition to accessing services without user consent.

TechRadar · Oct 11, 2024

100 million Americans just had their background check data exposed — phone numbers, dates of birth and more

Background check firm MC2 data left a 2.2TB database with personal and employment data on millions of Americans unprotected online.

Tom’s Guide · Sep 25, 2024

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Massive data leak could mean one-third of Americans has data leaked online

A huge exposed database has left data of at least 100 million Americans vulnerable online.

TechRadar · Sep 24, 2024

Thousands of US medical professionals have data exposed in major data breach

A Florida based recruitment company suffered a data leak that has affected tens of thousands.

TechRadar · Sep 11, 2024

Mystery database containing sensitive info on 762,000 car-owners discovered by researchers

Someone has been gathering information on Chinese drivers, and keeping it all in a single database.

TechRadar · Sep 6, 2024

170 million strong data leak traced to US data broker

Large-scale data leak attributed to poorly protected Elasticsearch server, but no threat actor identified.

TechRadar · Sep 2, 2024

Half the population of this entire country may have had their personal data leaked in massive data breach

The home addresses and financial details of 10 million Chileans affected in massive data leak

TechRadar · Aug 16, 2024

Most 2024 Paris Olympics apps are putting your privacy at risk

Researchers found that most apps require excessive and dangerous permissions while sharing your sensitive data. Here's how to stay safe.

TechRadar · Aug 2, 2024

One of the world's most popular adult sites leaks millions of records - BangBros users see personal data exposed online

Major breach sees 12 million records from adult site BangBros leaked online.

TechRadar · Aug 1, 2024

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PC Gamer · Jul 8, 2024

An infamous dataset of leaked login details, updated last week, now houses 9,948,575,739 passwords and poses the biggest threat to our online security ever

Another 1.5 billion passwords have just been added to the RockYou dataset, all harvested in only three years.

Tom’s Hardware · Jul 6, 2024

Biggest password database posted in history spills 10 billion passwords — RockYou2024 is a massive compilation of known passwords

The RockYou2024 leak compiles 9,948,575,739 unique passwords in one place.

Tom’s Guide · Jul 4, 2024

Nearly 10 billion passwords stolen by hackers — how to protect yourself

The RockYou2024 leak has exposed close to 10 billion credentials. Here's what we know and how to protect yourself.

TechRadar · Jul 4, 2024

Is this the biggest password leak ever uncovered? Researchers claim nearly 10 billion credentials under threat — here's what we know so far

10 billion unique plaintext passwords have been leaked online, stolen from multiple breaches over two decades.

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TechRadar · Jun 7, 2024

Alibaba-owned online marketplace may have breached millions of users

Over 11 million Taobao users have data taken, but the platform claims no foul play.

TechRadar · May 28, 2024

This top online video downloader is exposing user data — and trust us, you don't want some of this data exposed

A video downloader found inadvertently exposing people who downloaded porn and other videos.

TechRadar · May 14, 2024

Massive COMB data breach reveals info on over a billion people — here's what we know about "compilation of many breaches"

Someone's compiling data leaked in different breaches, with around 1.2 billion users possibly at risk

Tom’s Guide · May 2, 2024

New report puts Android vs iOS security to the test — here’s the winner

Security is an important consideration when choosing a smartphone and in the Android versus iOS debate, one operating system is clearer safer according to new research.

iMore · May 1, 2024

"Your iPhone does not go to sleep with you" — harrowing experiment reveals just how much data your iPhone shares, even with Russia... Thankfully it's worse on Android

One report tested a brand-new iPhone with 100 apps, leaving it idle for a week. In that time it contacted Russia.

TechRadar · Feb 21, 2024

Website builder Ucraft leaks data of hundreds of thousands of users

Around 200,000 Ucraft users may have lost sensitive information following breach.

Tom’s Guide · Jan 22, 2024

26 billion records exposed online in biggest data leak ever — what to do now

Mother of all Breaches contains 12 terabytes of records obtained from previous leaks, breaches and hacked databases.

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