The Taringa hack is actually one of the biggest leaks of the year with 27 million weakly hashed passwords breached, but it’s not often covered in the Western media with it being a Latin American site (something like Reddit). The leak happened in August and it seems like the hackers were able to brute force […]
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The U.S. Department of Defense Hit With $4.9B Lawsuit Over Data Breach
We haven’t published anything about the Defense Department for a while, the last news really was the whole RSA SecurID thing which affected some of the US DoD sub-contractors. The latest news is they’ve been hit with a colossal lawsuit of almost $5 Billion! The lawsuit is regarding a recent breach involving a healthcare system […]
TJX (T.J. Maxx and Marshall’s) Hacker Jailed For 30 Years
[ad] You should be familiar with the TJX case by now (TJX Largest Breach of Customer Data in U.S. History) and we’ve been following it here for a couple of years. We reported back in August last year that the TJX Credit Card Hackers were Busted and now one of the 11 guys involved has […]
TJX Credit Card Hackers Busted – Largest US Data Breach
[ad] We reported on this case back in September 2007, the largest US data breach in history so far (45 million customer records!). It seems like finally the people behind it have been busted, 11 people have been charged by US authorities. The US authorities have charged 11 people in connection with the theft of […]
TJX (T.J. Maxx and Marshall’s) Largest Breach of Customer Data in U.S. History
[ad] This case has been going on for a while but obviously hush hush, being that it is the largest breach of customer data in U.S. History. The details of the case have only started emerging in the last couple of months. Information Week published a good article covering what has been going on recently. […]