In July 2016, the now defunct free online games list website OnRPG suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The incident exposed just over 1M email and IP addresses alongside usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
A registration authority (RA) is an entity that is authorized to verify user requests for a digital certificate and also to tell a certificate authority (CA) to issue that certificate to the user.
In March 2025, almost 55k records were breached from the Hungarian education office website TehetségKapu. The data was subsequently published to a popular hacking forum and included email addresses, names and usernames.
There will be a ton of security topics that RSA Conference-goers can check out, but IT admins should be aware of three common themes surrounding email and endpoints.
A brute-force attack is a trial-and-error hacking method cybercriminals use to decode login information and encryption keys to gain unauthorized access to systems.
Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, was a popular program used to encrypt and decrypt email over the internet, as well as authenticate messages with digital signatures and encrypted stored files.
In March 2025, data from Samsung Germany was compromised in a data breach of their logistics provider, Spectos. Allegedly due to credentials being obtained by malware running on a Spectos employee’s machine, the breach included 216k unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses, items purchased from Samsung Germany and related support tickets and shipping tracking numbers.
In July 2021, the Indonesian restaurant website Qraved suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed almost 1M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, dates of birth and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
In September 2024, French electronics retailer Boulanger suffered a data breach that exposed over 27M rows of data. The data included 967k unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses, phone numbers and latitude and longitude. The data was later publicly published to a popular hacking forum.
Sustainability risk management (SRM) is a business strategy that aligns profit goals with a company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies.