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In the past few years, there have been many high-profile hacking scandals that have made both big and small companies think about the potential consequences of some of their actions. This article will go over four quick tips some security experts recommend for staying safe online. Expert advice Based on expert advice, here are four essential tips that, if you follow them, will go a long way to keeping your …
Spotify is a digital music streaming service, founded in Sweden in 2008. Recently, hackers obtained the personal data of more than 300,000 Spotify users and published it online. Here’s what you need to know about the incident. The case Unknown hackers have downloaded a database containing the personal data of more than 300,000 Spotify users. Fortunately, the hackers forgot to install strong protection on the server, so a security expert …
The car-sharing website Mitfahrzentrale.de is popular in Germany, but now users will not like it so much: it has been discovered that a considerable amount of personal data has been stolen from the site. What’s more, the case was discovered in March last year, but only now. Five hundred thousand bank account numbers, 100,000 email addresses, and 15,000 phone numbers were obtained.
The website, modeled on Linkedln, is a recruitment agency for programmers, which is why it is so embarrassing that almost its entire user database has been accessed. The attackers obtained eight million records, and the list has since appeared in several places online. Once again, users are advised to change their passwords immediately.
In April last year, the forum of encryption solutions provider Etherum was hacked, and more than 16,000 user IDs, passwords, email addresses, and other data were compromised. The company is undoubtedly embarrassed by the leak, but at least it can be said that the data was adequately protected; for example, passwords only had the hash ID on the system.
Dailymotion is probably the biggest loser of the month, with 87.6 million data stolen from its servers – user data, passwords, and other personal information all fell into the hands of the hackers. Anyone who had an account on the site would be better off changing their password, and of course, so would anyone else on any other website where they used the same username/password pair.
A data theft attack against Bitburger occurred in July; the attackers again gained access to personal data, including full name, postal address, and login passwords. Fortunately, the Passwords were encrypted and could only be used after decryption. Bitburger has, of course, informed those affected, and the error has been corrected; no material damage has been caused.