Posts Tagged ‘compromised’
Intuit notifies customers of compromised TurboTax accounts
Accounting software giant Intuit has notified customers that they have suffered a breach. The company warned users of TurboTax that their personal and financial information was accessed by attackers following what looks like a series of account takeover attacks. Intuit announced that the threat actors used credentials (usernames and passwords) obtained from “a non-Intuit source”…
Read MoreFermilab – Credential Compromise
The Fermilab physics laboratory has taken action to lock down its systems after security researchers found weaknesses exposing documents, proprietary applications, personal information, project details and credentials. Fermilab, which is part of the US Department of Energy, is a world-famous particle accelerator and physics laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. One database the researchers discovered allowed unauthenticated…
Read MoreFacebook Under Investigation For Massive Data Leak
The Irish Data Protection Commission has launched an investigation into the massive leak of Facebook user data online. It was recently revealed that the personal data of more than 530 million Facebook users had been posted in a low-level hacking forum, with users’ phone numbers being offered for sale. Facebook’s defence is that the data…
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