The AP Twitter account was breached today. The hackers sent out a bogus tweet about an attack on the White House.
A security breach at cloud-based customer support vendor Zendesk has exposed personal information including email addresses of Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr clients, the company said today in a blog post.
Jeep's Twitter account recently told the world that the iconic brand had been "sold to Cadillac." And Burger King's account started mysteriously promoting McDonalds. Two high-profile hacks in less than a week means, apparently, that Twitter had to take some action.
Facebook was hacked last month, though it promises no user data was compromised.
Jawbone, which creates speakers and fitness devices, announced it was hacked this morning. Emails and hashed passwords were compromised.
The future of the top U.S. Bitcoin echange is in doubt after $250,000 in virtual currency was stolen last night.
As CNet reports, an unidentified hacker found and absconded with an unencrypted backup of virtual wallet keys, taking 24,000 bitcoins, each worth just over ten U.S. dollars. It's the virtual equivalent of leaving your wallet on the cafe table as you go to use the restroom.
Less than 48 hours after Reuters' blogging platform got hacked, the news wire service once again confirms that it was compromised -- this time via it's Tech-focused Twitter account.
Former Gizmodo staffer Mat Honan's iCloud account was compromised over the weekend after a hacker fooled an Apple Care technician into giving out his account details.
Reuters' blogging platform was hacked today, allegedly by Syrian hackers loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
Professional social network LinkedIn wants you to know that its taking the recent password security breach to heart — despite lacking greater measures to prevent such hacks and a chief information security officer charged with keeping track of privacy flaws.…
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This week, my Xbox Live account was hacked. This is the story of what happened, my response to it, and the questions about security that it has raised.
The hijack
At twelve minutes past midnight on Tuesday night, just as …
