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218 million Words With Friends players lose data to hackers

October 2, 2019 0 Comments breach, data breach, data loss, draw something, gnosticplayers, hashing, omgpop, online games, passwords, Privacy, salt, salting, security threats, sha-1, sha1, words with friends, zynga

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:20:10 +0000

The serial hacker GnosticPlayers is claiming to have ransacked Zynga’s user data – including names, emails and passwords.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/5iXJ4_o_gJ4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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XKCD forums breached

September 3, 2019 0 Comments bcrypt, breach, correcthorsebatterystaple, Cryptography, data breach, data leak, data loss, hashing, MD5, phpBB, salting, security threats, vulnerability, xkcd

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:17:58 +0000

How did the Correct Horse Battery get Stapled?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/YDE5xjmhFxY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>