An unprotected database leak underscores mounting cybersecurity threats across tech, government, and financial sectors.

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13 million plaintext passwords belonging to webhost users leaked online Personal data is exposed as a result of a five-month-old hack on 000Webhost. Dan Goodin – Oct 28, 2015 10:43 AM | 34 ...

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Included in the data breach, the report says, was a list of plaintext Apple ID passwords… According to the report, TeenSafe left its servers – which are hosted on Amazon’s Web Services ...

Investment and stock trading app Robinhood stored some user credentials, including passwords, in plaintext on internal systems, the company revealed today. This particularly dangerous security ...