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The Weekly Hack: Data on tens of millions of Marriott customers and Quora users was stolen

Security experts say that a hack resulting in the passport numbers of 327 million Marriott customers getting stolen would have been worse if their actual, physical passports were stolen. Thanks for ... read more

Facebook to contact 87 million users affected by data breach

Photograph: Nam Y Huh/AP Eighty-seven million Facebook users around the world will find out on Monday if their details were shared with Cambridge Analytica in one of the social network’s largest data ... read more

Quora hit by data breach affecting around 100 million users

Quora has been targeted by hackers in a data breach affecting around 100 million of its users. The Mountain ... comes just days after hotel giant Marriott revealed a hack affecting as many as 500 ... read more

The WIRED Guide to Data Breaches

The LinkedIn hack also turned out to be even worse than it first appeared. In 2016 a hacker known as “Peace” started selling account information, particularly email addresses and passwords, from 117 ... read more

The Weekly Hack: Canada’s postal service says data on cannabis customers was stolen

The newspaper is also critical of a stipulation in Canada's pot legalization law that requires all legal users to submit their information into a government database. “A data ... hack on Sony Pictures ... read more

Hackers breach Quora.com and steal password data for 100 million users

Users ... Quora’s post is only the latest disclosure of a major breach. On Friday, hotel chain Marriott International said a system breach allowed hackers to steal passport numbers, credit card data, ... read more

Quora reveals data breach that affected over 100 million users

Following the recent hack on the Marriott hotel chain and the attempted infiltration of Dell's customer data, Quora has announced that over 100 million of its user records were stolen last week ... ... read more

Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach

The data ... users were paid to take a personality test and agreed to have their data collected for academic use. However, the app also collected the information of the test-takers’ Facebook friends, ... read more

China was behind the Marriott Hotel hack, claim investigators

However, Marriott Hotels said it had no information to share as the investigation continues. The attack began four years ago and has resulted in the loss of 500 million customers who had used the ... read more

The Worst Hacks of 2018

The hack originated at Starwood's ... attribution has not been officially confirmed. The stolen data would be an espionage bonanza for government hackers, though. About 170 million impacted Marriott ... read more

Your data was probably stolen in cyberattack in 2018

Those customers may ... breach also hit 500 million accounts. Just days after Marriott’s announcement, question-and-answer website Quora said a security breach compromised the data of as many as 100 ... read more

Marriott breach leaves 500 million exposed with passport, card numbers stolen

On Friday, Marriott International announced a system breach that has affected approximately 500 million customers, with stolen information including names ... the hackers were "criminals collecting ... read more