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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.
September: Bangladeshi hacker TiGER-M@TE made a world record in defacement history by hacking 700,000 websites in a single shot. [76] October 16: The YouTube channel of Sesame Street was hacked, streaming pornographic content for about 22 minutes. [77]
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
Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords that appeared on the dark web around January 2019. The database contains over 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords, resulting in more than 2.7 billion email/password pairs.
Google+ originally did not disclose the breach out of fears of being compared to Facebook's recent data leak and subsequent loss of consumer confidence. [4] In response to the Wall Street Journal article, Google announced the shutdown of Google+ in August 2019. [19] After the second data leak, the date was moved to April 2019. [20]
LiveLeak was a British video sharing website headquartered in London.The site was founded on 31 October 2006, in part by the team behind the Ogrish.com shock site which closed on the same day. [2]
We live in an age where data breaches and identity theft are increasingly becoming a part of everyday life. Too many people don’t make password security a priority. It’s a big mistake, and it ...
A data breach, also known as data leakage, is "the unauthorized exposure, disclosure, or loss of personal information". [1]Attackers have a variety of motives, from financial gain to political activism, political repression, and espionage.