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KidsGuard stalkerware leaks data on secretly surveilled victims

The company left a server open and unprotected, regurgitating private data slurped from thousands of surveilled people, including children.

With no password required and no encryption in place, a burglar or ID thief could have seen your photos, your address and more.

They stole 26 million credit cards from the massive black market site, and now financial institutions are ensuring the cards can’t be abused.

In spite of prostitution being legal in the Netherlands, this could lead to the same type of blackmail attempts/suicide from Ashley Madison.

The serial hacker GnosticPlayers is claiming to have ransacked Zynga’s user data – including names, emails and passwords.

Andrei Tyurin is the first to be convicted in one of the largest thefts of customer data from a single US financial institution in history.

Fedir Oleksiyovich Hladyr is the first member of the infamous cybercrime network to be found guilty of hacking-related crimes in a US court.

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Tens of thousands of records with financial data were left in plaintext in a database that wasn’t protected with a password.

Equifictitious sites popped up within days of Equifax agreeing to pay up to $700m to settle claims over the 2017 data breach.