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News and interesting facts about data theft and hacking from around the world.
Adobe has already announced that it will stop developing Flash, but it won’t happen overnight, so that the technology will be with us for a while. In the meantime, Adobe is forced to patch security bugs, of which there is a fair number: the latest package alone has fixed 25 problems. And the company has been forced to fix one critical bug out of sequence.
Data theft cases are also wrong because they cause tangible financial harm to companies and users. Research has shown that in the US alone and the healthcare sector alone, the annual amount of money that is lost from the system, for this reason, is enormous: $6.2 billion.
This is what happens when the ice cream backfires: someone hacked into a hacker group’s favorite forum and posted the information they had obtained. With the data in their possession, some of them may even be easy to get hold of, as half a million user names and hundreds of thousands of personal details have been exposed, along with PayPal account IDs and other valuable information. However, it should be …
The login details, email addresses, and phone numbers of more than 10,000 users fell into the wrong hands when the social networking site’s password reset module malfunctioned, temporarily making the database accessible to anyone. Twitter quickly fixed the bug and notified the affected users.
Based on voluntary data provided by the companies concerned, a survey has revealed that the average large company suffers at least five attacks a year that target its IT systems. Because companies store important data securely, the main targets are not the central servers but the employees’ computers – of course, if they are taken over, the next step is to get the data from the servers.
Hello Kitty has the power to attract huge crowds in a way we don’t understand. There’s even an official social media page for the character’s “followers”; Unfortunately for them, the site has been hacked, and all their data has now been compromised. The personal data included name, date of birth, email address, and country of origin.
It’s a big zoo, that’s for sure: a Turkish researcher wrote an open-source ransomware application for educational purposes, only to be surprised to find that his code was used to develop real ransomware. At least the expert was confident enough to reveal the backdoors in his program once this was discovered, which made it relatively easy to recover files.
We had planned not to write about the news this month that porn is attracting users and hackers. In the end, we couldn’t stick to that because there were three attacks targeting people interested in pictures of scantily clad ladies. The recipe was always the same – along with downloading the promised images and videos, the malware was also introduced to the machine to steal our online banking data.
Attackers have managed to steal 47 GB of data from University of Graz computers, possibly by obtaining and using the login details of the Vice-Chancellor. The data includes personal details of teachers and students and exam results.
The financial department of a US healthcare institution was broken into, and the thieves made off with several valuable computers. The computers are valuable mainly for the data they contain: one of them was used to store the personal data of 200,000 patients. Nearly 2,000 people also had data recorded that is easy to misuse: bank card information and social security numbers.