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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has reported the issue to Congress.

A SQL database backup was "placed in an insecure environment" by a third party.

Virgin Media said it will not offer a bug bounty for finding the third-party flaw.

Yevgeniy Nikulin allegedly used employee credentials to illegally access the companies' computers back in 2012.

Foursquare denied a breach, while Weebly confirmed it, adding that password resets would be initiated soon.

Security experts believe the leaked data indicate that the breach may be legitimate.

LinkedIn confirmed in May that the breach compromised over 100 million user login names and passwords.

Major hacks this year have impacted MySpace, LinkedIn, Tumblr and Yahoo.

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The hacker going by the handle 0x2Taylor claimed to have used search site Shodan.io to uncover the open database.

A classified computer network went offline at the Creech Air Force Base in Nevada..

The company said law enforcement alerted them about a potential data security breach issue in September.

The outages come after the release of 17GB-worth of leaked government emails.

Smartwatches are increasingly viewed as a security risk by the UK government.

The stolen data reportedly contained NSA 'source code' used by elite hackers.

'TalkTalk should and could have done more to safeguard its customer information,' the ICO said.

The hotel's payment systems exposed more than 70,000 customer credit card numbers.

Usernames, emails, IP addresses and salted passwords reportedly hacked.

The details of the alleged breach remain unclear as the firm is reportedly still investigating the attack.

Breach appeared to have occurred in 2011 and user passwords were allegedly not encrypted.

The Rambler.ru web portal offers email, internal and shopping services.

The forum hack compromised emails, usernames and even plain-text passwords.

Data obtained by breach notification website LeakedSource.

'Have I Been Pwned' is a vital service for checking if your email accounts are safe.

The company said an intruder managed to gain access to its logging system using an employee's password.

The breach stems from the site's Prison Planet TV, which provides paid members access to Infowars content.

Opera has issued a forced password reset for all Sync users in response to the breach.

The breach leaked over 22,000 documents and may also impact national security of Australia, Malaysia, Chile and Brazil.

The company says the breach was 'part of a sophisticated attack' targeting different hotels, restaurants and retailers.

The 'unathorised access' reportedlty exposed between 200 and 300 major customers.