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- sted
Information about stolen user accounts, hacked sites etc. I hope it will be useful. It's recommended to use this site each time when something pops up:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
(Currently that's the only one I know what's legit)
- sted2
Today is Tumblr
Hackers Stole 65 Million Passwords From Tumblr, New Analysis Reveals
- Thankfully, I'm not on Tumblr. But yeah, it's pretty scary how many breaches there are.Continuity
- wait for insta :)sted
- Oh the fucking humanity********
- drgs1
so my Linkedin account has been "pwned"
what are they going to do with my login exactly?
- Your LinkedIn suddenly updates to 'Junior Fry Cook and Waste Management Technician at Kysten Rundt'prophetone
- nothing if you don't use the same email+password everywhere.sted
- if you use the same password for everything then you should be worried.Al_dizzle
- sted1
Today is myspace day:
Hacker Tries To Sell 427 Milllion Stolen MySpace Passwords For $2,800
- there are that many myspace users?bulletfactory
- read the article maybeimbecile
- ********1
I was pew pew in two accounts I don't have anymore:
MySpace and tumblr...
Losers!
- sted0
- uan1
Being privacy-aware in 2016
https://vox.space/blog/89/being-…
incredible how much you are supposed to do, be aware of when surfing the web and caring about your privacy. it's good to see competent people caring about it and sharing the knowledge.
- sted0
Popular BitTorrent client uTorrent's forum, which has over 388,000 registered members and sees tens of thousands of visitors each day, has been hacked.
https://torrentfreak.com/utorren…
it's important to mention that you should never register at any circumstances on torrent sites.
- I would expect hackers to attack banks, or corporations and stuff...but this is like thieves going after thieves.Maaku
- ...assuming they're black hat and/or independentprophetone
- it makes perfect sense, not like a bunch of content pirates can run to the authorities********
- sted0
If you get something like this don't answer it
- sted0
Yahoo
http://www.express.co.uk/life-st…
(sample of the data was confirmed to be real few mins. ago)Telegram
No public source yet.
- face_melter0
I recommend following @SwiftOnSecurity - an entertaining and informative albeit sometimes jargon-heavy mix of security news/talk and Taylor Swift.
- You got me at "Taylor Swift"Maaku
- he's my infosec man crushprophetone
- sted0
About the dropbox password change (bit sugarcoated bullshit)
https://www.dropbox.com/help/925…update on the iOS exploit (if you aren't installing shitty apps on your phone or visit useless sites don't worry):
http://arstechnica.com/apple/201…
- sted0
Earlier this week, we detected signs of an attack where access was gained to the Opera sync system. This attack was quickly blocked. Our investigations are ongoing, but we believe some data, including some of our sync users’ passwords and account information, such as login names, may have been compromised.
- sted0
Last.fm
43,570,999 user accounts were breached in a hack of Last.fm that occurred in March of 2012...
The number of passwords and the severity of the hack were not uncovered until today.https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/0…
"The most popular password pulled from the Last.fm database was 123456. " aahah
- sted1
https://motherboard.vice.com/rea…
:D
Roughly 800,000 accounts of the popular pornography website Brazzers have been leaked to the public after a recent data breach.- cool********
- Shit! They just lost their load!ETM
- lol********
- cool
- sted2
Several Sites Including Twitter, Spotify, PayPal, SoundCloud Suffering Outage Dyn DNS Under DDoS Attack
https://www.dynstatus.com/incide…
http://motherboard.vice.com/read…
some say that this is is related to these events:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/ar…
- sted1
Spotify is writing massive amounts of junk data to storage drives
http://arstechnica.com/informati…
It's in the air since the summer but still nobody knows what data is actually written on the users disk (as it isn't using that much network traffic). Spotify now made an official statement (after 4 months)
- I read this, it read/writes so much data it reduces the life of SSD's from years to weeks.face_melter
- sted1
Adult Friend Finder and others
Sexual secrets for hundreds of millions exposed in largest hack of 2016Adultfriendfinder.com - 339,774,493 users
Cams.com - 62,668,630 users
Penthouse.com - 7,176,877 users
etc..
Total: 412,214,295 affected usershttp://www.techspot.com/news/670…
http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/…
- Gnash1
Yahoo discloses hack of 1 billion accounts
