Data Breach
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A data breach is the exposure of private data by unauthorized users. The distinctive feature of it is that information is being accessed from an external source. Such incidents can happen for various reasons that include targeted malware attacks, weak passwords, exploiting system vulnerabilities, or drive-by downloads. Data breaches can significantly harm users and businesses.
17 Million Phone Numbers Were Matched to User Accounts Using a Twitter Bug on an Android App
A security researcher was able to discover a bug by uploading millions of phone numbers to a Twitter’s Android app and matching them to user accounts.
Latest Facebook Data Leak Made Data of About 267 Million Users Publicly Available Online
The unprotected database contained sensitive information such as users’ full names, phone numbers, and Facebook IDs, and was available online for quite a while.
TrueDialog’s Unsecured Database Exposed Millions of Users’ SMS Text Messages
A massive data breach of an unsecured database run by TrueDialog has recently been discovered. The exposed database stored sensitive information along with millions of SMS texts of American users.
Breaches at Network Solutions and Some Other Domain Registrars Confirmed
It has been confirmed that one of the largest domain name registrars called Network Solutions along with Register.com and Web.com were breached.
