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Turns out Sensitive Data of 270 Million People are Not Worth Much
The profiles of millions of Facebook users have leaked to the Dark Web. They could be bought in the form of a list for 500 euros.
hardware & software
Mateusz Popielak
April 22, 2020
Nintendo Targeted by Hackers? Rumors of User Data Leak
Internet users report suspicious activities on their Nintendo accounts. Many users noticed unauthorized login attempts, which in some cases resulted in the use of related PayPal accounts and payment cards.
hardware & software
Jacob Blazewicz
April 20, 2020
App For Tracking Coronavirus Turn Out to be Ransomware
The ransomware software called „CovidLock” infects Android smartphones when users install the coronavirus case tracking application. Hackers block the phone and demand a ransom in exchange for access.
hardware & software
March 16, 2020
Google Messes Up; Private Videos Sent to Wrong Users
Google recently informed its customers that in November last year those who requested a backup of their files may have receive videos belonging to other users.
hardware & software
February 5, 2020
Millions of Microsoft's Customer Data Records Leaked
The end of 2019 must have been really unpleasant for Microsoft. It turned out that due to a security error in the database, more than 250 million records with user information were publicly available. The gap was patched up immediately after detection.
hardware & software
Conrad Hazi
January 23, 2020
Chinese Government Accuses Xiaomi and Tencent of Illegal Data Collection
The Chinese government has issued a statement accusing giants such as Xiaomi and Tencent of illegal data collection in their country. The published list includes 41 applications that have violated the regulations.
hardware & software
December 23, 2019
Possible Leak of Nexus Mods User Data
The creators of Nexus Mods, a website enabling users from all over the world share their work and others to download it, published a disturbing statement yesterday. Its content suggests that the data of website's users may have ended up in the wrong hands.
hardware & software
December 20, 2019
Trend Micro Employee Stole and Traded Customer Data
Trend Micro is a large corporation and one of the leaders in the cyber security industry. Its employee committed data theft of nearly 70,000 users, including telephone numbers. It is not known which company the acquired information was sold to.
hardware & software
November 8, 2019
Facebook: 419 Million User Phone numbers Leaked
Facebook's got another big flop. A total of 419 million Facebook user phone numbers were found on a server, which could be accessed by almost anyone because it was not even password-protected.
hardware & software
Barth Faryna
September 6, 2019
ZAO - Popular Chinese Alternative to FaceApp May be Dangerous
The Chinese application ZAO, which allows you to superimpose your face in a video or photo, breaks records of popularity. In an instant, it became the most popular downloadable program in the Chinese App Store and... a true deep-fake machine.
hardware & software
Konrad Serafinski
September 3, 2019
E3 Leaks Personal Data of More Than 2,000 Participants
Personal data of over 2,000 E3 2019 participants leaked to the web. The list of victims include journalists, YouTubers and developers. Michal Manka, the editor of our sister website GryOnline, commented on the whole situation and its consequences.
video games
Konrad Serafinski
August 4, 2019
Facebook Faces Record Financial Penalty; Company's Stocks Go Up
The Federal Trade Commission has accepted an agreement whereby Facebook will have to pay USD 5 billion. The record amount did not deter investors, and the company's stock prices increased by almost 2%.
hardware & software
Paul Wozniak
July 15, 2019
Halo: Reach Beta Leaked. Play it, and You Will be Banned
Halo: Reach PC beta has been leaked to the Internet. By downloading or playing a copy of the trial version, you are risking a ban to all of the developer's games - including those that have not yet been created.
video games
Julia Dragovic
July 1, 2019
Popular Android Apps Were Stealing User Data
Six popular applications from one of the Chinese developers, which we can find in the Google Play store, stole users' data without their knowledge. Suspicious programs have already been removed from the database.
hardware & software
April 23, 2019
Facebook Illicitly Processed User E-mail Data
Facebook user data managing gets another black eye – this time, a representatives of the service admitted that the service used data obtained from e-mail accounts of about 1.5 million users without the consent of individual persons.
hardware & software
April 19, 2019
Valve Will Examine Copying of Steam Data by Epic Games Store
Valve has answered the controversies related to Epic Games Store client, which allegedly downloads sensitive user data related to their Steam account.
video games
Michael Kulakowski
March 17, 2019
Epic Games Denies Accusations of Using Steam Data
Another day, another Epic Games Store controversy. The online community believes that the platform downloads sensitive user data from Steam files, including friend lists and stats on the games they have played. Epic Games denied the accusations.
video games
Jacob Blazewicz
March 15, 2019
Epic Games Store Lacks Even Most Basic Account Security Measures
Registering an account on Epic Games Store is as easy as pie – the user isn't even obliged to verify the email address they've provided.
video games
Christian Pieniazek
March 5, 2019
The largest stolen data dump ever discovered
The file containing data of almost 773 million e-mail addresses was available to the public on a popular hosting service. The information came from attacks on thousands of different websites.
other
January 18, 2019
Another Fallout 76 scandal: customer data leaked
Another affair with Bethesda and Fallout 76 in the spotlight. An error in the game's tech support system allowed players to view other users' data for some time, including phone numbers and home addresses.
video games
Adrian Werner
December 6, 2018