DataBreach

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Two-Factor Authentication Bypassed in Reddit Breach

Online discussion forum Reddit reported on Thursday that its systems had been breached following a sophisticated phishing attack. In the breach notification, Reddit CTO Christopher Slowe, aka KeyserSosa, explained that the hacker “sent out plausible-sounding prompts pointing employees to a website that cloned the behavior of [Reddit’s] intranet gateway, in an attempt to steal credentials …

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What You Should Do After T-Mobile’s Most Recent Data Breach

T-Mobile has yet again suffered a data breach, this time affecting 37 million customers. The company reported in a press release that criminals pilfered customer names, addresses, email addresses, dates of birth and account numbers by abusing a piece of software called an API that allows computer programs to talk to each other.  T-Mobile emphasized …

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What the Twitter Data Leak Means for You

Private information from over 200 million Twitter users has been published on a popular hacking forum for anyone to download. The data includes users’ email addresses and public information, such as account names and handles. The data was likely obtained in 2021 after bad actors exploited a vulnerability in Twitter’s software. The flaw meant they …

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