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Are You One of the 533M People Who Got Facebooked?

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Ne’er-do-wells leaked personal data — including phone numbers — for some 553 million Facebook users this week. Facebook says the data was collected before 2020 when it changed things to prevent such information from being scraped from profiles. To my mind, this just reinforces the need to remove mobile phone numbers from all of your online accounts wherever feasible. Meanwhile, if you’re a Facebook product user and want to learn if your data was leaked, there are easy ways to find out. Continue reading Are You One of the 533M People Who Got Facebooked?→

Chatbooks photo service confirms breach, days after ‘Shiny Hunters’ hacking claims went public

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A photo-printing startup is alerting its users about a data breach in which hackers stole some customers’ personal information. Chatbooks, a Utah-based company that sells albums of digital photos, told customers on May 8 it was victimized on March 26 by attackers who accessed Chatbooks login credentials, including names, email addresses and individually salted and hashed passwords, and, for some customers, phone numbers and Facebook ID data. “We’ve hired a digital forensics firm and our investigation is ongoing, but as we learn more we will continue to communicate with our community and other stakeholders,” CEO Nate Quigley wrote in an email to CyberScoop. Chatbooks appears to be just one of a growing number of international companies victimized by a hacking group which calls itself “Shiny Hunters.” The same group of scammers claimed to steal 91 million usernames and passwords from Tokopedia, an Indonesian e-commerce company, as well as the food […]

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Indonesian e-commerce giant probes reported breach of 91 million credentials

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Indonesia’s largest e-commerce platform says it’s investigating a possible data breach in which hackers claim to have stolen data about 91 million customers. Tokopedia, which is backed by $2 billion in funding from investors including SoftBank and Alibaba, told Reuters Saturday it was investigating an alleged theft of user data, though it maintained that user passwords were still encrypted. Indonesia’s Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Johnny G. Plate, on Sunday urged Tokopedia to “immediately improve its security system to prevent a further breach in data.” The government also has summoned the board of directors to clarify the current state of the investigation in a meeting Monday. The statement followed a series of tweets from Under the Breach, a data breach monitoring service, including screenshots, apparently from a vendor on a cybercriminal forum, advertising 15 million names, email addresses and hashed passwords. The same account then marketed 91 million records […]

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