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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 Hardware

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.

Tom’s Guide

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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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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"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.

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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

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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Entire Brazilian population potentially put at risk by major data leak

Yet another unprotected database was recently discovered, but this one held private info on virtually every Brazilian citizen.

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Indian IT services giant HCL Technologies hit by ransomware

The attack was limited, HCL claims, and did not affect operations.

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Everything users scanned went to a database that was open and available to anyone who knew where to look.

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Green Card Lottery applicants see private data leaked online

Green Card lottery applicants have private data leaked online, available to anyone who knew where to look.

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Line mobile messaging app hit by systems breach, thousands of accounts leaked

Users, business partners, and employees all affected by Line breach that happened after a supply chain attack.

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Children's personal information is at risk due to data leaks in school apps

Some data has been leaked due to a misconfiguration, uncovering seriously harmful data about schoolchildren.

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Royal Mail website put users at risk due to major security fail

An open redirect vulnerability was found in one Royal Mail website, possibly allowing for data theft and malware distribution.

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A major online torrent service has suffered a major data breach - check if you're affected

WiHD database was left unprotected online for anyone who knew where to look.

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