It’s fewer than 1% of the 50 million songs and videos Myspace lost, but hey, it’s better than nothing!
Tag Archives: Data loss
Facebook apps expose millions of users’ Facebook data
Once more unto the breach, dear Facebook Friends of Friends…
Is your hard drive exposed online?
Over 13,500 internet-connected storage devices have been exposed online by users who didn’t set passwords for them.
Government spyware hidden in Google Play store apps
The malware, dubbed Exodus, records and steals all manner of data and leaves phones vulnerable to further hacking and data tampering.
Possible Toyota data breach affecting 3.1 million customers
Several Toyota companies have announced that they might have suffered data breach attempts, with one affecting 3.1 million customers.
Top-secret defense document hoarder Harold Martin pleads guilty
Martin admitted that for more than 20 years, he stole and a vast quantity of highly classified information, stashing it in his home and car.
DragonEx exchange hacked, smoking ashes being raked over
“Part” of its assets have been retrieved, and they’ve got an address for a suddenly much plumper Bittrex wallet.
FEMA exposes sensitive data of 2.5 million disaster survivors
The agency said it exposed 2.3m people’s details in a “major privacy incident” involving a contractor that set up temporary housing.
Family tracking app spilled pics, names and real-time location data
A journalist/researcher team got a sensitive database taken down after the vendor responsible failed to acknowledge a problem.
Thousands of API and cryptographic keys leaking on GitHub every day
Researchers have found that one of the most popular source code repositories in the world is still housing thousands of publicly accessible user credentials.