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It’s charging subpar password security and lousy user notification: Zynga has yet to notify users to warn them of the breach, the suit says. Continue reading Zynga faces class action suit over massive Words With Friends hack
The serial hacker GnosticPlayers is claiming to have ransacked Zynga’s user data – including names, emails and passwords. Continue reading 218 million Words With Friends players lose data to hackers
How did the Correct Horse Battery get Stapled? Continue reading XKCD forums breached
A group of researchers has discovered that many of the web’s most popular content management systems are using obsolete algorithms to protect their users’ passwords. Continue reading Pass the salt! Popular CMSs aren’t securing passwords properly
A recent study shows that if you aren’t prepared to ask or pay for security, you probably won’t get it. Continue reading Study throws security shade on freelance and student programmers
Plain-text, unencrypted passwords were sent instead of having users reset them. There was no breach, the firm claims, but how would it know? Continue reading Millions of utilities customers’ passwords stored in plain text
Hackers have compromised data from the accounts of 100 million users of question and answer site Quora.com. Continue reading Quora.com admits data breach affecting 100 million accounts
Whiplr, a naughty, naughty little app, has now secured passwords with “one-way encryption” and is “adding more security measures”. Continue reading Fetish app put users’ identities at risk with plain-text passwords
Datadog, a software-as-a service-based provider of IT infrastructure monitoring and analytics services, has forced a password reset on all of its user and admin accounts following a breach last Friday. Continue reading Datadog Forces Password Reset Following Breach
Darn cheap, too: the whole lot was priced at about $2,200. LinkedIn has confirmed that the data is legitimate. Continue reading Millions of LinkedIn passwords up for sale on the dark web