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Have you heard about the recent leak affecting the hacking forum Cracked.to? Last Friday the forum's database of 321,000 members and 749,161 unique email addresses was leaked on rival site, RaidForums. Learn the details in this interesting article: . When users of hacking forums turn on each other, expect things to get messy quickly. The latest site to find itself on the receiving end of this phenomenon is Cracked.to which last Friday reportedly found its database of 321,000 members and 749,161 unique email addresses leaked on rival site, RaidForums. We can say that with confidence because by Monday the compromised accounts had become another statistic on the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) breach database – the industry’s go-to for news of such incidents. The link for this article located at NakedSecurity is no longer available. . In the underground world of digital criminals, betrayal often leads to chaos. Recent reports from prominent forums indicate a significant breach of data. Secrets are spilling.. Hacking Forum Breach, Database Leak, Information Security, Data Exposure. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
MyfitnessPal has been hacked! Because email addresses were among the information stolen, criminals have been able to send MyfitnessPal spear phishing emails for the past month. These spear phishing attacks are especially dangerous because stolen personal information that users had logged in the app can be used to make phishing emails very convincing and difficult to detect. . Under Armour’s hugely popular fitness tracker, MyFitnessPal, has been hacked. If you’re one of the 150 million or so users of the app or website don’t panic, but do change your password. If you use Facebook to log in to MyFitnessPal you do not need to change your Facebook password. If you use your MyFitnessPal password on any other websites, change your password on those websites – choose a different, strong password for each one (consider using a password manager if that sounds too difficult).. Strava experienced a data breach impacting 100 million users. Update your credentials to safeguard against potential scams.. MyFitnessPal Accounts, Password Change, Phishing Risks, Account Security. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Free website hosting service 000webhost has suffered a data breach which has placed the service's security practices under scrutiny. 000webhost is a free web hosting service which supports both PHP and MySQL, catering for millions of users worldwide. On Wednesday, the firm told users in a Facebook message that the company had suffered a databreach on its main server. . A hacker used an exploit in an old, unpatched version of PHP to upload malicious files and gain access to the service's systems. Not only was the full database containing the usernames, passwords and email addresses compromised, but this information has been dumped online. . An attacker leveraged a vulnerability in a legacy PHP version during the 000webhost incident, leading to the exposure of vast amounts of user information.. 000webhost Data Exposure, Web Hosting Risks, PHP Security Risks. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
A Russian hacker group that has attacked some of the biggest news and business sites in the world claims it penetrated CNET's website over the weekend and stole a database of registered reader data. . A representative from the group calling itself W0rm told CNET News in a Twitter conversation that it stole a database of usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords from CNET's servers. The database affects more than 1 million users. The link for this article located at CNET is no longer available. . A representative from the group calling itself W0rm told CNET News in a Twitter conversation that it. russian, hacker, group, attacked, biggest, business, sites, world. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
EBay Inc. said that hackers raided its network three months ago, accessing some 145 million user records in what is poised to go down as one of the biggest data breaches in history, based on the number of accounts compromised. . It advised customers to change their passwords immediately, saying they were among the pieces of data stolen by cyber-criminals who carried out the attack between late February and early March. The link for this article located at NY Post is no longer available. . A significant security incident at Yahoo compromised 3 billion user accounts; urgent updates to account credentials are essential for protection.. eBay Data Breach, User Accounts Security, Cyber Crime Alerts. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
They say the cloud is the future of computing. All your data and software programs, now known as web apps, will reside in the cloud and the computer itself will act as a . However, a weak link does exist and it is the password associated with your cloud account. The link for this article located at Wall Street Journal is no longer available. . Discover methods to strengthen password protection for your online accounts and safeguard your information in the modern digital landscape.. Cloud Security, User Authentication, Password Strength, Digital Safety. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Twitter is investigating an apparent data breach that resulted in more than 50,000 user names and passwords being posted to the Internet. The data was posted across five pages (one, two, three, four, five) on Pastebin, a favorite site for hackers to post their ill-gotten gains. Ordinarily, when large files are involved, data thieves "tease" their exploits at the site and include a link to a site, like BitTorrent, that supports large file downloads. The maximum file size for Pastebin is 512KB.. Twitter is downplaying the leak because much of the information posted to Pastebin appears to be garbage. There are some 20,000 duplicates, many of the accounts belong to suspended spammers, and some of it consists of "unlinked" information, information where the user name doesn't correspond to the password paired with it. The link for this article located at InfoWorld is no longer available. . Social media giant Twitter is looking into a security incident that led to the leak of 50,000 user accounts, including their usernames and passwords shared on the internet.. Twitter Breach, User Credentials, Data Exposure. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
A million logins for the hugely popular YouPorn sex site appear to have been leaked after a hacker chanced upon a URL linking to a user list apparently left exposed for several years.. Smaller portions of the YouPorn database featuring user email addresses and passwords have appeared on Pastebin, many of them using recognisable first and last names. The vulnerable URL has now been taken down by the publishers of YouPorn, which still leaves a large number of the site's users at risk of having their accounts hacked of phished. The link for this article located at PC Advisor is no longer available. . Smaller portions of the YouPorn database featuring user email addresses and passwords have appeared . million, logins, hugely, popular, youporn, appear, leaked, hacker. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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