A group of individuals communicating in underground forums are attempting to decrypt a 50GB dump of Triple DES encrypted PIN numbers believed to have been acquired in the massive 2013 attack on retail giant Target.
A laptop stolen from the office of a New Mexico Oncology Hematology Consultants employee may have led to a compromise of unsecured protected health information for more than 12,000 individuals.
It was a computer programming error in the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services that led to the Medicaid cards of almost 50,000 children being mailed to wrong addresses.
An undisclosed number of T-Mobile customers may have had personal information compromised after an unauthorized party gained access to a file stored on servers owned and managed by a T-Mobile supplier.
Officials with the World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League have confirmed that although about 175,000 email addresses and account passwords were accessed in a hack, only 50,000 accounts are still active.
After a leak resulted in the data of 4.6 million users ending up online, photo messaging service Snapchat has issued a public response to the incident.
A group took advantage of an exploit in Snapchat that allowed them to steal a database of 4.6 million usernames and phone numbers, which they then posted to a website that has since been suspended.
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