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On September 28, 2018, Facebook announced that attackers had exploited a vulnerability in its "View As" feature to steal access tokens. Facebook initially...
On August 1, 2018, Reddit disclosed that an attacker had accessed some of its systems, including an old database backup with user data from 2007 and email...
In March 2018, reporting by The Observer and The New York Times revealed that the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica had obtained data on up to 87...
In March 2018, the US Department of Justice indicted nine Iranian nationals associated with the Mabna Institute for a long-running hacking campaign against...
In February 2018, researchers at RedLock disclosed that attackers had broken into Tesla's cloud environment and used it to mine cryptocurrency.
On January 3, 2018, researchers disclosed Meltdown and Spectre, a family of vulnerabilities in the way modern processors execute instructions speculatively....
In November 2017, Uber disclosed that a year earlier attackers had stolen personal data on about 57 million riders and drivers, including the driver's...
In November 2017, UpGuard researchers found three Amazon S3 buckets configured for public access that contained billions of social media posts collected as...
In September 2017, Equifax disclosed that attackers had stolen personal data on about 147 million people, including Social Security numbers, birth dates and...
In September 2017, The Guardian reported that Deloitte, one of the world's largest accounting and consulting firms, had suffered a breach of its global...
In July 2017, UpGuard researchers reported that records belonging to millions of Verizon customers were sitting in a publicly accessible Amazon S3 bucket....
On June 27, 2017, a malware outbreak later called NotPetya began in Ukraine and spread to multinational companies within hours. Shipping giant Maersk had to...
In June 2017, researcher Chris Vickery of UpGuard found an Amazon S3 bucket containing personal data on about 198 million American voters. It belonged to...
On May 12, 2017, WannaCry ransomware spread across the world in a matter of hours, encrypting files on hundreds of thousands of Windows computers in more...
In February 2017, Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy noticed something strange in search results: fragments of private data from websites that...
On February 28, 2017, Amazon S3 in the US-EAST-1 region became unavailable for about four hours. Thousands of websites and apps stopped working, and even...
In December 2016, Yahoo disclosed that data from roughly one billion user accounts had been stolen in 2013. Months earlier it had disclosed a separate 2014...
On October 21, 2016, a large share of the US internet seemed to stop working. Twitter, Netflix, Reddit, GitHub, Spotify and dozens of other services became...