Though it had long stopped being the powerhouse that it once was, social media site MySpace hit the headlines in 2016 after 360 million user accounts were leaked onto both LeakedSource.com and put up for sale on dark web market The Real Deal with an asking price of 6 bitcoin (around $3,000 at the time)....Read More

I have a confession to make: I used to reuse passwords. It’s the number one security sin, but this was over a decade ago and I didn’t know about the best password managers yet. This was a huge mistake. And with news that researchers just uncovered a database of 16 billion records, including passwords and...Read More

Tea, a provocative dating app designed to let women anonymously ask or warn each other about men they’d encountered, rocketed to the top spot on the U.S. Apple App Store this week. On Friday, the company behind the app confirmed it had been hacked: Thousands of images, including selfies, were leaked online. “We have engaged...Read More

DEAN OBEIDALLAH: So let’s turn to story number two, which is much lighter and almost, I’m going to hide my enjoyment, um, in this Kash Patel got hacked. Now it’s never good to get hacked, but he got hacked by Iranian linked hackers, according to the reporting now and his website, the group Handala Hack...Read More

Strange things are going on over on X, with questions about whether Elon Musk’s account has been hacked…again. As well as owning the social media platform previously known as X, Musk has amassed a massive following of 229.3 million users. With him posting numerous times every day, he has a loyal legion of fans. This...Read More

gargantiopa/Getty Images How do hackers get access to your computer? Hackers have many tricks up their sleeves. Viruses and malicious software, aka malware, make the most of security gaps, but something called social engineering is even easier. As Ravichandran points out, “Hackers and scammers know there’s one vulnerability they can always exploit: you.” Social engineering...Read More

It is not immediately clear who is behind the hack, though nation-state-affiliated actors are widely suspected, the people said. Criminal organizations may also have been involved, they added. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts declined to comment. Asked whether it is investigating the incident, the FBI referred POLITICO to the Justice Department. The Justice...Read More

The surveillance state is all around us — in the cameras that watch us and even in the devices we own — a creepy reality that makes Peacock’s The Copenhagen Test an unfortunately timely spy thriller. For the lead character in this eight-episode series, premiering December 27, it’s also a waking nightmare. Simu Liu stars...Read More

The University of Pennsylvania confirmed on Tuesday that a hacker stole university data as part of last week’s data breach, during which alumni and other affiliates received suspicious emails from official university email addresses. “We got hacked,” the message from the hackers read. “We love breaking federal laws like FERPA (all your data will be...Read More

Sex toy maker Tenga notified customers of a data breach on Friday, according to an email obtained by TechCrunch. In the message, the Japanese company said that “an unauthorized party gained access to the professional email account of one of our employees,” which gave the hacker access to the contents of the employee’s inbox. This...Read More