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June: Over 1,000 accounts on multiplayer online game Roblox were hacked to display that they supported U.S. President Donald Trump. [148] July: The 2020 Twitter bitcoin scam occurred. July: User credentials of writing website Wattpad were stolen and leaked on a hacker forum. The database contained over 200 million records. [149]
Credential stuffing is a type of cyberattack in which the attacker collects stolen account credentials, typically consisting of lists of usernames or email addresses and the corresponding passwords (often from a data breach), and then uses the credentials to gain unauthorized access to user accounts on other systems through large-scale automated login requests directed against a web ...
A screenshot of Natural Disaster Survival, a game on Roblox by the account stickmasterluke. Due to its status as a user-created games platform, Roblox has a variety of popular games. As of May 2020, the most popular games on Roblox had over 10 million monthly active players each.
The Worst Passwords List is an annual list of the 25 most common passwords from each year as produced by internet security firm SplashData. [4] Since 2011, the firm has published the list based on data examined from millions of passwords leaked in data breaches, mostly in North America and Western Europe, over each year.
BugMeNot is an Internet service that provides usernames and passwords allowing Internet users to bypass mandatory free registration on websites.It was started in August 2003 by an anonymous person, later revealed to be Guy King, [1] and allowed Internet users to access websites that have registration walls (for instance, that of The New York Times) with the requirement of compulsory registration.
This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles.. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continual
June: Over 1,000 accounts on the multiplayer online game Roblox were hacked to display that they supported U.S. President Donald Trump. [113] July: The 2020 Twitter bitcoin scam occurred. July: User credentials of writing website Wattpad were stolen and leaked on a hacker forum. The database contained over 200 million records. [114]
IEEE – in September 2012, it exposed user names, plaintext passwords, and website activity for almost 100,000 of its members. [20] Yahoo! – in 2012, hackers posted login credentials for more than 453,000 user accounts, [21] doing so again in January 2013 [22] and in January 2014. [23]