Google announced on Monday that it would be shutting down its social media platform "Google+" after a massive data breach was discovered. According to Reuters, the breach may affect up to 500,000 users and was most likely caused by a bug that infected the site more than two years ago. Although the bug was only announced this week, a report from Reuters states that Google … [Read more…]
Social media superpower Facebook announced on Friday that millions of the company's users have been victims of a data breach. According to Reuters, hackers cracked login codes for "up to 50 million" accounts in what is being called the worst security incident in the company's history. "This is a very serious security issue, and we're taking it very seriously," said Facebook … [Read more…]
The social media giant is not having a very good week at all—this time under fire for a 2016 data breach to the data analytics company best known for its work on President Donald Trump's campaign, Cambridge Analytica. The events of the week even spawned a new trending hashtag: #DeleteFacebook. The sentiment has been spreading ever since whistleblower Christopher Wylie came … [Read more…]
Sens. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., and Dean Heller, R-Nev., have asked credit monitoring service Equifax to explain how it is protecting the 1.3 million active-duty servicemembers affected by a massive data breach this year. The senators sent Equifax CEO Richard F. Smith a letter on Tuesday asking the company to share its plan to help members of the military who may not be in a … [Read more…]
Former National Security Agency contractor Harold Martin allegedly stole documents that seem far more sensitive than what has come from the Snowden leaks. For more than two decades, Martin allegedly made off with highly-classified documents that were found in his home and car that included discussions of the US military's capabilities and gaps in cyberspace, specific … [Read more…]
An anonymous hacker on Monday made good on his threat to post the details of 20,000 FBI employees online, less than 24 hours after he dumped the data for 10,000 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel. The hacker, who claims to have obtained the information by hacking the Department of Justice, shared both datasets with Motherboard in advance of the hack. The … [Read more…]
