Tag Archives: personal information

Omegle, the Popular 'Chat with Strangers' Service Leaks Your Dirty Chats and Personal Info

Ever since the creation of online chat rooms and then social networking, people have changed the way they interact with their friends and associates.

However, when it comes to anonymous chatting services, you don’t even know what kinds of individuals you are dealing with.

Sharing identifiable information about yourself with them could put you at risk of becoming a victim of stalking,

Guccifer 2.0 Leaks Personal Info of Nearly 200 Congressional Democrats

The hacker, who recently claimed responsibility for the high-profile hack of Democratic National Committee (DNC), has now taken credit for hacking into the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) as well.

To prove his claims, the hacker, going by the moniker Guccifer 2.0, dumped on Friday night a massive amount of personal information belonging to nearly 200 Democratic House

France warns Microsoft to Stop Collecting Windows 10 Users' Personal Data

We have heard a lot about privacy concerns surrounding Windows 10 and accusations on Microsoft of collecting too much data about users without their consent.

Now, the French data protection authority has ordered Microsoft to stop it.

France’s National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) issued a formal notice on Wednesday, asking Microsoft to “stop collecting excessive data” as well as “

Hacker Leaks Info of 30,000 FBI and DHS Employees

An unknown hacker who promised to release the personal information on government employees has dump online a list of nearly 20,000 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents and 9,000 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers.

Though the authenticity of the information has not been verified, at least, some of the leaked data appears to be legitimate.

Here’s What the Hacker Leaked

191 Million US Voters' Personal Info Exposed by Misconfigured Database

BREAKING: A misconfigured database has resulted in the exposure of around 191 Million voter records including voters’ full names, their home addresses, unique voter IDs, date of births and phone numbers.

The database was discovered on December 20th by Chris Vickery, a white hat hacker, who was able to access over 191 Million Americans’ personal identifying information (PII) that are just