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Data Enrichment Records (unverified) – 8,176,132 breached accounts
In December 2016, <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/3149713/security/data-enrichment-records-for-200-million-people-up-for-sale-on-the-darknet.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 200 million "data enrichment profiles" were found for sale on the darknet</a>. The seller claimed the data was sourced from Experian and whilst that claim was rejected by the company, the data
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Dish Network Breaks Telemarketing Rules
Dish Network has been been slapped with what federal prosecutors say is the biggest ever fine for breaking laws aimed at limiting telemarketing calls. A court ruled that the satellite TV and broadband provider must pay $280 million for violating Federal
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One Trick To Know if Your iPad or iPhone Has a Virus
Now you can outsmart hackers with this one trick to avoid an iPad or iPhone virus. Several million users own the iPad or iPhone, which stores their personal photos, contacts of friends and family, along with your entire data base of
Read MoreAbandonia – 776,125 breached accounts
In November 2015, the gaming website dedicated to classic DOS games <a href="http://www.abandonia.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abandonia</a> suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 776k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes
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New Whatsapp Money Scam
The newest WhatsApp money scam is tricking users into paying for the free messaging service. Several users have reported receiving a text message, which appears to come from WhatsApp, stating that their “subscription has expired”. Little do they know where this money
Read MoreEdmodo – 43,423,561 breached accounts
In May 2017, the education platform <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/hacker-steals-millions-of-user-account-details-from-education-platform-edmodo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Edmodo was hacked</a> resulting in the exposure of 77 million records comprised of over 43 million unique customer email addresses. The data was consequently published to a popular hacking forum and
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