News & Reviews:   breach

Not too long ago, there was numerous news that LinkedIn got breached and millions of accounts were posted for sale on an online forum by an anonymous user. The company launched an investigation and this is what they have to say about the incident. 

A recent report by cybernews.com seems to hint that more than 3.2 billion emails and passwords from platforms such as Netflix, LinkedIn, and more have recently been leaked online. According to our source, it seems that the list of user credentials was a compilation of multiple breaches that have happened previously.

Based on a statement by comparitech, it seems that around 235 million profile data from accounts originating from TikTok, Instagram, as well as Youtube, have been exposed through the use of scraping. For those who are not familiar with scraping, it is an automated process that collects user information from public webpages from the aforementioned social media platforms.

There was news a few months ago that a large scale hacking event transpired involving Yahoo accounts, which amounted to about half a million different accounts. Now a new report has surfaced, stating that the data breech is bigger than expected. A further 1 billion accounts was compromised, on top of the previous number of account.

Information compromised may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and there’s a possibility that some security questions and answers were also compromised. Yahoo believes the reason for the breach was that a hacker was able to figure out how to forge cookies to gain access to these accounts. Yahoo already started to email affected customers on this matter, and have taken steps to rectify this issue.