AT&T Finally Admits Data Leak Impacting 73 Million Customers
Nearly three years after RestorePrivacy first broke the AT&T breach by the prolific hacking group ShinyHunters, AT&T has finally admitted …
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Hacker Claims Breach on Real Estate Data Analytics Firm Mashvisor
Threat actor ‘IntelBroker’ has claimed yet another high-profile data breach, this time against Mashvisor, claiming to hold multiple user and agent …
Atlas VPN Announces Shutdown, All Users to Be Moved to NordVPN
Atlas VPN has announced that it will be shutting down its services on April 24, 2024, due to rising costs and the challenges that arise from the …
Free VPN Apps on Google Play Turn Phones into Proxies
Several free Android VPN apps have been found to support a malicious residential proxy operation named ‘Proxylib.’ Proxylib infects …
Study Shows OpenVPN Traffic Can Be Easily Identified and Blocked
Internet connections using the OpenVPN protocol can be easily identified by using DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) technologies and blocked with minor …
Employer Review Site Glassdoor Deanonymized Users Without Consent
Glassdoor users have been reporting lately that the platform has introduced changes in its privacy policy, which include publishing people’s …
AT&T Investigating Potential Breach Following Leak of 73.4 Million Records
A threat actor has leaked over 73 million records allegedly containing information on AT&T customers on the ‘Breach’ hacking forums. AT&T is a …
Massive Breach Exposed Data of 43 Million People in France
France Travail, the country’s public employment service, has fallen victim to a cyberattack that resulted in a major data breach. France …
Tor Introduces New ‘WebTunnel’ Bridge to Help Bypass Censorship
The Tor Project has announced the release of a new bridge called ‘WebTunnel,’ designed to help users bypass censorship in highly …
Tuta Mail Adds Quantum Resistant Encryption via TutaCrypt
Tuta Mail, the German end-to-end encrypted email service, has introduced TutaCrypt, a new protocol aiming to give the platform resistance to quantum …
New Chrome Extension Alerts User When Add-Ons Change Hands
A new Chrome extension named ‘Under New Management’ checks installed extensions periodically and displays a warning to the user when a …
WhatsApp and Messenger Get Interoperable End-to-End Encryption
Meta has announced that in the context of its efforts to align with EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) legislation taking effect on March 7, …
Proton Mail Introduces “Email Aliases” for Heightened Privacy
Secure, end-to-end encrypted, and zero-access email service Proton Mail has just introduced a new privacy feature called “hide-my-email …
Hacker Sells Records Allegedly from 21.1 Million EasyPark Customers
A cybercriminal using the nickname “hameraib” is attempting to sell what they claim to be 21.1 million records that were exfiltrated from …
FTC Fines Avast $16.5 Million and Bans Firm from Selling User Data
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the U.S. has imposed a fine of $16.5 million on security software provider Avast and prohibited the company from …