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News and interesting facts about data theft and hacking from around the world.
It hasn’t been a good deal to be a MacKeeper-user lately after a technical glitch at the service provider caused almost all of its users’ data to be publicly available on the internet. Users’ names, passwords, activation codes, and phone numbers were also leaked – fortunately, at least credit card details were safe this time.
Apple’s system is supposed to be protected against unauthorized intrusions by security software called Gatekeeper, but there have been times in history when this protection has been bypassed. And now it’s happening again: a researcher has discovered that Gatekeeper uses simple statistical analysis to determine whether an app is secure. Knowing this, it’s easy to write code that slips through the cracks.
LastPass, the most popular of the SSO (simple sign-on) systems, has not escaped its fate after a phishing attack attempt allowed as yet unknown attackers to gain access to user data. The data was obtained by popping up a window on some websites confirming LastPass login details. Of course, all this requires stupidity on the part of the users, but we have seen that this can rely on many times …
As we reported earlier, more than 1 billion users’ data was stolen from Yahoo’s servers by strangers in 2013. In addition, Yahoo mishandled the case, only disclosing the data leak years later. However, it seems that the management does not learn from its mistakes. It has now emerged that in 2014, too, a massive amount of 500 million records fell into unauthorized hands. Further details are not yet known.