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Hackers who breached T-Mobile stole personal data for ~49 million accounts

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) T-Mobile on Wednesday said criminals obtained the individual information of almost 49 million current, former, or prospective customers in the latest mega-hack of its servers. The haul includes customers’ first and last names, date of birth, SSN, and driver’s license/ID information for 7. 8 million current post-paid accounts, meaning accounts that […]

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Morgan Stanley discloses data breach that resulted from Accellion FTA hacks

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Morgan Stanley suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive customer data, and it became the latest known casualty of hackers exploiting a series of now-patched vulnerabilities in Accellion FTA, a widely used third-party file-transfer service. The data obtained included names, addresses dates of birth, social security numbers, and affiliated corporate company […]

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Data-thieving hackers strike again, stealing EA source code and police data

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Game maker Electronic Arts and the Presque Isle Police Department in Maine are responding to an event they had both been dreading: the theft of gigabytes of private data by hackers who breached their Internet-connected networks. In EA’s case, the theft included 780GB of source code and tools for FIFA 21, […]

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Ubiquiti breach puts countless cloud-based devices at risk of takeover

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Network devices-maker Ubiquiti has been covering up the severity of a data breach that puts customers’ hardware at risk of unauthorized access, KrebsOnSecurity has reported, citing an unnamed whistleblower inside the company. In January, the maker of routers, Internet-connected cameras, and other networked devices, disclosed what it said was “unauthorized access […]