Timehop Hacked — Hackers Stole Personal Data Of All 21 Million Users

And the hacks just keep on coming. Timehop social media app has been hit by a major data breach on July 4th that compromised the personal data of its more than 21 million users. Timehop is a simple social media app that collects your old photos and posts from your iPhone, Facebook, Instagram,...

More Federal Agencies Wrapped Up in Facebook Data Privacy Probe

The Securities and Exchange Commission, FBI, and the Department of Justice are now reportedly investigating the social media giant after it failed to disclose that more than the data of 70 million platform users had leaked through a third-party application, sources told the Washington Post, Monda...

Another Facebook Quiz App Left 120 Million Users' Data Exposed

People are still getting over the most controversial data scandal of the year, i.e., Cambridge Analytica scandal, and Facebook is under fire yet again after it emerges that a popular quiz app on the social media platform exposed the private data of up to 120 million users for years. Facebook was ...

Bithumb Crypto Exchange Hacked Again; $31 Million Stolen

By Waqas Bithumb, the world's fourth-largest Bitcoin, and Ether exchange platform has been This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bithumb Crypto Exchange Hacked Again; $31 Million Stolen...

Facebook bug exposed private posts of 14 million users to public

By Carolina The social media giant Facebook said on Thursday that a critical bug This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook bug exposed private posts of 14 million users to public...

Facebook Software Bug Made Some Private Posts Public: 14 Million Affected

A Facebook software bug in May switched the “suggested audience” for posts to “public” for 14 millions of users. The glitch meant Facebook users who though they were sharing content with just friends or small groups actually made their posts available to the general public. The incident is the...

Facebook bug changed 14 million users' default privacy settings to public

Facebook admits as many as 14 millions of its users who thought they're sharing content privately with only friends may have inadvertently shared their posts with everyone because of a software bug. Facebook said in front of Congress in March over the Cambridge Analytica scandal that "every piece...

Syndicate Wallet hacked; $10 million dollars stolen

By Uzair Amir Shopin, the first universal shopper profile offering the most personal This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Syndicate Wallet hacked; $10 million dollars stolen...

Reading Your Emails With A Read&Write Chrome Extension Same Origin Policy Bypass (~8 Million Users Affected)

Summary Due to a lack of proper origin checks in the message passing from regular web pages, any arbitrary web page is able to call privileged background page APIs for the Read&Write Chrome extension vulnerable version 1.8.0.139. Many of these APIs allow for dangerous actions which are not meant ...

Yahoo hacker involved in 500 million accounts breach jailed for 5 years

By Carolina The same hacker was once known as "international hacker-for-hire." Karim Baratov, This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Yahoo hacker involved in 500 million accounts breach jailed for 5 years...

ZenMate VPN Browser Extension Deanonymization & Hijacking Vulnerability (3.5 Million Affected Users)

Summary ZenMate, a VPN provider with over 43 million users, offers multiple browser extensions to use their VPN with. As of the time of this writing the browser extensions have a combined total of 3.5 million users. The ZenMate VPN clients for both Chrome & Firefox trust the previously expired...

Bitcoin Gold loses over $18 million after hack attack

By Waqas Hackers are conducting Double Spend attack on cryptocurrency exchanges and the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bitcoin Gold loses over $18 million after hack attack...

“Equi-Facts”: Equifax Clarifies the Numbers for Its Massive Breach

As companies continue to install the vulnerable version of Apache Struts behind the breach, Equifax has filed a clarification statement. The number of impacted U.S. consumers from the infamous 2017 Equifax data breach now totals about 147.9 million, and the breach has touched almost every adult i...

Someone stole $3 million from Coinsecure Bitcoin exchange

By Waqas In a security notice, the Indian Bitcoin exchange Coinsecure has revealed This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Someone stole $3 million from Coinsecure Bitcoin exchange...

Equifax reveals additional 2.4 million users impacted from 2017 breach

By Waqas It looks like the nightmare for Equifax users is far from This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Equifax reveals additional 2.4 million users impacted from 2017 breach...

BitGrail cryptocurrency exchange hacked; $160 million in Nano stolen

By Waqas Due to the unprecedented popularity and public acceptable garnered by This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: BitGrail cryptocurrency exchange hacked; $160 million in Nano stolen...

Happy 15th Birthday TaoSecurity Blog

Today, 8 January 2018, is the 15th birthday of TaoSecurity Blog! This is also my 3,020th blog post. I wrote my first post on 8 January 2003 while working as an incident response consultant for Foundstone. I don't believe I've released statistics for the blog before, so here are a few. Blogger...

Imgur Confirms 2014 Breach of 1.7 Million User Accounts

Popular image sharing community Imgur said last week it was the victim of a data breach in 2014 that exposed 1.7 million user accounts. In a breach notice posted to its website last Friday, the company said users are being notified via email that they must update their passwords immediately. “On...

After Getting Hacked, Uber Paid Hackers $100,000 to Keep Data Breach Secret

Uber is in headlines once again—this time for concealing last year's data breach that exposed personal data of 57 million customers and drivers. On Tuesday, Uber announced that the company suffered a massive data breach in October 2016 that exposed names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers of 57...

Oh, Crap! Someone Accidentally Triggered A Flaw That Locked Up $280 Million In Ethereum

Horrible news for some Ethereum users. About $300 million worth of Ether—the cryptocurrency unit that has become one of the most popular and increasingly valuable cryptocurrencies—from dozens of Ethereum wallets was permanently locked up today. Smart contract coding startup Parity Technologies,...