Well.ca, an online store selling health and beauty products, exposed names, addresses and credit card details for some of its customers in December, it admitted last month.
An unknown attacker accessed the pop singer's account for about 15 minutes mid-afternoon on Saturday and tweeted multiple times before Bieber's team regained control.
Information on more than 2,000 individuals leaked outside a secure network because, since 2008, two employees with the Iowa Department of Human Services used personal online accounts and storage devices.
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More than 168,000 clients of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services are being notified that computers containing their personal information were stolen.
An attacker, claiming to be aligned with Anonymous, dumped data online including students' names, email addresses and phone numbers after the university refused to give into extortion threats.
Brown, a writer and activist who is known as one of the online faces of Anonymous, faced charges related to sharing a link to a dump of credit card numbers connected to the Stratfor breach.
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