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Twitch source code, creator earnings exposed in 125GB leak

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Live video broadcasting service Twitch has been hit by a massive hack that exposed 125GB of the company’s data. In a 4chan thread posted (and removed) Wednesday, an anonymous user posted a torrent file of the multi-gig data dump. The dump contains the company’s source code and details […]

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Epik data breach impacts 15 million users, including non-customers

Enlarge (credit: Tom Roberts ) Epik has now confirmed that an “unauthorized intrusion” did in fact occur into its systems. The announcement follows last week’s incident of hacktivist collective Anonymous leaking 180 GB of data stolen from online service provider Epik. To mock the company’s initial response to the data breach claims, Anonymous had altered […]

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Anonymous leaks gigabytes of data from Epik, web host of Gab and Parler

Enlarge (credit: Tom Roberts ) Hacktivist collective Private claims to have obtained gigabytes of data from Epik, the web host for the Texas GOP, Gab, Parler, and 8chan, among other right-wing sites. The stolen data has been released as a torrent. The hacktivist collective says that the data set, which is over 180GB in size, […]

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Travis CI flaw exposed secrets of thousands of open source projects

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A security flaw in Travis CI potentially exposed secrets of thousands of open source projects that rely on the hosted continuous integration service. Travis CI is a software-testing solution used by over 900,000 open source projects and 600,000 users. However, a vulnerability in the tool made it possible for secure environment […]

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38 million records exposed online—including contact-tracing info

Enlarge (credit: Jorg Greuel | Getty Images) More than a thousand web apps mistakenly exposed 38 million records on the open internet, including data from a number of Covid-19 contact tracing platforms, vaccination sign-ups, job application portals, and employee databases. The data included a range of sensitive information, from people’s phone numbers and home addresses […]