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Top Suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison Hack Committed Suicide in 2014

July 7, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, ashley madison, ashley madison hack, avid life media, disney+, hulu, jeremy bullock, noel biderman, wall to wall media, warner bros., william webster harrison

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 19:55:45 +0000

When the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO Noel Biderman was quick to point the finger at an unnamed former contractor. But as a new documentary series on Hulu reveals [SPOILER ALERT!], there was just one problem with that theory: Their top suspect had killed himself more than a year before the hackers began publishing stolen user data.

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A decade in cybersecurity fails: the top breaches, threats, and ‘whoopsies’ of the 2010s

December 19, 2019 0 Comments ashley madison, ashley madison hack, Awareness, badrabbit, Cambridge Analytica, cryptolocker, cryptolocker ransomware, Data privacy, edward snowden, emotet, exploits, facebook, Hacktivism, mat honan, notpetya, NSA, nsa spying, nsa surveillance, nsa tools, playstation breach, playstation hack, Ransomware, ryuk, Ryuk ransomware, security fails, shadow brokers, social media, sony, sony pictures hack, surveillance, target breach, target hack, trickbot, triple threat, WannaCry

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:03:33 +0000

As the 2010s come to a close, we take a snarky walk down memory lane, listing the craziest, most impactful, or simply just awful cybersecurity fails of the decade.

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