News tagged with email address

Hackers obtain email addresses of iPad 3G owners

A shadowy hacking group obtained the email addresses of over 114,000 owners of Apple iPads by exploiting a vulnerability at US telecom giant AT&T, a Silicon Valley website reported on Wednesday.

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created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4

US, British officials victims of Stratfor hack: press

Email addresses and passwords belonging to British, US and NATO officials were posted online following the hacking of a US intelligence analysis firm over Christmas, the Guardian daily reported Monday.

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created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US tracked email of Wikileaks volunteer: report

US authorities have obtained a secret court order to force search giant Google and a small Internet provider to hand over information from email accounts of a volunteer for whistleblower website WikiLeaks, ...

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created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 17

Hackers protest BART decision to block cellphones

(AP) -- Hackers broke into a website for San Francisco's mass transit system Sunday and posted contact information for more than 2,000 customers, the latest showdown between anarchists angry at perceived ...

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created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 9

Hacker group claims hit on US defense contractor

Hacker group Anonymous released a trove of military email addresses and passwords it claimed to have plundered from the network of US defense consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton.

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created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 4

1.29 million customers' data stolen from Sega (Update)

Hackers have stolen the personal data of some 1.29 million customers of the Japanese game maker Sega, the company said Sunday, in a theft via a website of its European unit.

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created Jun 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 5

Hackers swiped PlayStation Network user data: Sony (Update 2)

Sony is warning that hackers stole password, birthday and other data about users of its PlayStation Network that connected PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles to online games, films and more.

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created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 12

Targeted nature of email breach worries experts

Think twice next time you get an email from Chase or Citi asking you to log in to your credit card account. The bank may not have sent it.

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created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

British PM faces backlash over 'snooping' plans

British Prime Minister David Cameron is facing a growing backlash from within his own party over plans to extend the government's powers to monitor people's email exchanges and website visits. ...

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created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

FTC, RockYou settle over exposed email passwords

(AP) -- The Federal Trade Commission says that an online game site called RockYou has reached a settlement with the government over a hacking attack that exposed email addresses and passwords from 32 million users.

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created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Twitter stores user iPhone address books for 18 months after scan

Twitter Inc. said that to help users find friends also using the service, it retrieves entire address book from users' smartphones, including names, email addresses and phone numbers, and keeps the data on its servers for ...

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created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

British police 'inadvertently' share emails of crime victims

Britain's biggest police force apologised on Thursday to more than 1,100 victims of crime after admitting it had "inadvertently" shared their email addresses with other victims.

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Hackers expose more Israeli credit card details

A group of Saudi hackers calling themselves group-xp published details of more than 6,000 Israeli credit cards online in the second such incident in three days, army radio reported on Friday.

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created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Anonymous releases more Stratfor data

Online "hacktivist" group Anonymous has released a trove of email addresses and credit card numbers stolen from the website of intelligence analysis firm Stratfor and promised further attacks.

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created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

NYTimes offers discounts in mistaken email gaffe

(AP) -- In today's digital age, it's easy to send out an email by mistake - even for a company that's in the business of communication.

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