Yes, there was a breach. But it’s an old one that the crooks are trying to use again.
Tag Archives: password reset
Flipboard data breach – what users should do now
Hugely popular news aggregation site Flipboard – one billion app downloads from Google Play and counting – has become the latest internet company to admit it has suffered a breach.
Google stored some passwords in plain text for 14 years
Nobody got at the subset of G Suite passwords, Google said, apologizing and saying that it’s working to ensure this is an isolated incident.
Photography site 500px resets 14.8 million passwords after data breach
Photography website 500px has become the latest site to admit suffering a serious data breach.
Samsung fixes flaws that could have let attackers hijack your account
Flaws in the mobile site were leaving users vulnerable to attackers who could have reset their user passwords and hijacked their accounts.
Support wouldn’t change his password, so he mailed them a bomb
The Cryptopay customer asked customer services for a new password. They refused, given that it was against the company privacy policy.
AdGuard adblocker resets passwords after credential-stuffing attack
AdGuard has taken the decision to reset all user accounts after suffering a credential-stuffing and brute-force password attack.
Venmo mobile payment service under fire for security carelessness
Venmo is taking heat after a news report last week revealed security holes you could “drive a truck through,” in the words of one aggrieved Venmo user whose account was drained of $2850.
Facebook and Yahoo team up to block account hijackings via recycled accounts
Facebook and Yahoo have figured out how to undo the mess Yahoo made when it decided to recycle old email addresses. 
SourceForge’s turn to reset passwords – this time in a good cause!
Hot on the heels of eBay’s password problems comes a password reset notification from SourceForge. The good news is that SourceForge’s reset is a *proactive* measure, not a reactive one.