Tag Archives: passwords

Cluster of “megabreaches” compromise a whopping 642 million passwords

(credit: CBS)

Less than two weeks after more than 177 million LinkedIn user passwords surfaced, security researchers have discovered three more breaches involving MySpace, Tumblr, and dating website Fling that all told bring the total number of compromised accounts to more than 642 million.

"Any one of these 4 I'm going to talk about on their own...

More Comments are closed
Amazon reportedly reset some customer passwords over security concerns
Photo: Julie Clopper / Shutterstock.com.
Amazon has reset an unknown number of customer passwords, citing possible security issues, according to a report from ZDNet. “A number of readers” of that tech news site said they received an email notification from the e-commerce giant, letting them know their password had been reset because Amazon had “recently discovered that your [Amazon]...
More Comments are closed