Hackers infiltrated the European social network VK.com at some point over the last several years and made off with credentials for 100 million of its users.
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Millions of Stolen MySpace, Tumblr Credentials Being Sold Online
Hackers are selling roughly 427 million passwords belonging to users of MySpace along with information on 65 million Tumblr users.
Is your password really secure?
Have you double checked if your mailaddress has ever been in a breach and – if possible – switched to 2-factor authorization?
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LinkedIn is Latest Contributor to Breach Fatigue
Expert Troy Hunt waxes on last week’s LinkedIn data dump of 117 million credentials and how it reflects on a new breed of hackers.
LinkedIn Slams Breach Data Reseller With Cease and Desist Order
LinkedIn is striking back against websites that are attempting to monetize the 117 million usernames and passwords stolen from the company as part of a 2012 data breach.
4 tips for your LinkedIn account security
There’s never been a better time than now to check and tighten your LinkedIn account security and privacy: After all, email addresses and hashed (and sometimes already cracked) passwords of the network‘s users have been put up for sale recently.
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2012 LinkedIn Breach Just Got a Lot Worse: 117 Million New Logins For Sale
More than 100 million LinkedIn usernames and passwords for sale on dark web as 2012 breach comes back to haunt business-savvy social network.
Hacker puts up 167 Million LinkedIn Passwords for Sale
LinkedIn’s 2012 data breach was much worse than anybody first thought.
In 2012, LinkedIn suffered a massive data breach in which more than 6 Million users accounts login details, including encrypted passwords, were posted online by a Russian hacker.
Now, it turns out that it was not just 6 Million users who got their login details stolen.
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Popular apps: To trust or not to trust?
Everytime you ask an Android smartphone user what he thinks about the utility of these devices, you will hear the same old story about the many functions it has and how the various apps can make life easier. But does an user really know what risks does this kind of comfort has?
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LinkedIn Fixes Persistent XSS Vulnerability
LinkedIn fixed a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability in its site this week that could have spread a worm on the service’s help forums.