A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is a security threat that occurs when an attacker makes it impossible for legitimate users to […]
A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is a security threat that occurs when an attacker makes it impossible for legitimate users to […]
In February 2025, the “doxing” website Doxbin was compromised by a group calling themselves “TOoDA” and the data dumped publicly. Included in the breach were 336k unique email addresses alongside usernames. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to “emo.rip”.
In June 2024, the investment research company Zacks was allegedly breached, and data was later published to a popular hacking forum. This comes after a separate Zacks data breach confirmed by the organisation in 2023 with the subsequent breach disclosing millions of additional records representing a superset of data from the first incident. The 2024 breach included 12M unique email addresses along with IP and physical addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers and unsalted SHA-256 password hashes. Zacks did not respond to multiple attempts to contact them about the incident.
Antimalware is a software program created to protect IT systems and individual computers from malicious software, or malware. Antimalware programs […]
Cyber hijacking, or computer hijacking, is a type of network security attack in which the threat actor takes control of […]
The RSA algorithm (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) is a public key cryptosystem that uses a pair of keys to secure digital communication and […]
Blowfish is a variable-length, symmetric, 64-bit block cipher. Designed by Bruce Schneier in 1993 as a “general-purpose algorithm,” it was […]
A honeypot is a network-attached system set up as a decoy to lure cyberattackers and to help organizations detect, deflect […]
In January 2025, the GPS tracking service LandAirSea suffered a data breach that exposed 337k unique customer email addresses alongside names, usernames and password hashes. The breach also exposed partial credit card data (card type, last 4 digits and expiration), and GPS device identifiers and locations. LandAirSea is aware of the breach and has remediated the underlying vulnerability.
In July 2022, the Adopt Me Trading Values website for assessing the value of pet trades within the “Adopt Me!” Roblox game suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 86k unique email addresses along with usernames (and Roblox usernames), IP addresses and bcrypt password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to “Leidhall”.