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Yahoo Engineer Hacked 6,000 Accounts Looking For Homemade Porn Credit: metro.co.uk Reyes Daniel Ruiz, 34, will face no jail time for the offence which saw him abuse his position to hack 6,000 accounts of Yahoo Mail users. He has been sentenced to five years of probation and home confinement and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine
Promo.Com Discloses Data Breach After 22m User Records Leaked Online Promo.com, an Israeli-based marketing video creation site, has disclosed a data breach after a database containing 22 million user records was leaked for free on a hacker forum. Promo is a web site that allows you to create promotional videos or ads that can then be shared
Android chat app uses public code to spy, exposes user data A chat application for Android claiming to be a secure messaging platform comes with spying functionality and stores user data in an unsecured location that is publicly available. Welcome Chat targets users from a specific region of the world and relies on open source
Wattpad data breach exposes account info for millions of users An allegedly stolen Wattpad database containing 270 million records were being sold in private sales for over $100,000. Now it is being offered for free on hacker forums. Watthpad is a web site that allows members to publish user-generated stories on a variety of different topics.