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Breaking — Russian Hacker Responsible for LinkedIn Data Breach Arrested by FBI

The alleged Russian hacker arrested by the FBI in collaboration with the Czech police is none other than the hacker who was allegedly responsible for massive 2012 data breach at LinkedIn, which affected nearly 117 Million user accounts.

Yevgeniy N, 29-year-old Russian hacker was arrested in Prague on October 5 suspected of participating in conducting cyber-attacks against the United States,

Massive Data Breach Exposes 6.6 Million Plaintext Passwords from Ad Company

Another Day, Another Data Breach! And this time, it’s worse than any recent data breaches.

Why?

Because the data breach has exposed plaintext passwords, usernames, email addresses, and a large trove of other personal information of more than 6.6 Million ClixSense users.

ClixSense, a website that claims to pay users for viewing advertisements and completing online surveys, is the latest

Oculus CEO's Twitter gets Hacked; Hacker declares himself new CEO

Twitter account of another high profile has been hacked!

This time, it is Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe who had his Twitter account hacked Wednesday.

Iribe is the latest in the list of technology chief executives to have had their social media accounts hacked in recent weeks.

Recently, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai, Twitter’s ex-CEO Dick Costolo, and

Insider Breach: T-Mobile Czech Employee Steals and Sells 1.5 Million Users Data

T-Mobile is the latest in the list of recent high-profile data breaches, though this time the breach is not carried out by “Peace” – the Russian hacker who was behind the massive breaches in some popular social media sites including LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr, and VK.com.

Instead, one of the T-Mobile’s employees stole more than 1.5 Million customer records at the T-Mobile Czech Republic in

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg's Twitter, Pinterest accounts Hacked! And the Password was…

The man who runs the biggest social network and continuously implements new security measures to boost its billion users security, himself failed to follow basics of Internet security for his own online accounts.

Yes, I’m talking about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who had his Twitter and Pinterest accounts compromised on Sunday.

The hacker group from Saudi Arabia, dubbed OurMine, claimed