Sentences with phrase «compromised user details»

The breach reportedly occurred during February of this year, and compromised user details like usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords.

A good way to mitigate this risk and reduce the chances of compromised user details is to allow and encourage — if possible make mandatory — the use of 2 - factor authentication.

Not exact matches

And in the last few weeks, details emerged of two of the biggest data hacks ever: the US credit reporting agency Equifax revealed that tens of millions of people's personal data had been stolen from it, and Yahoo admitted that a large hack in 2013 had compromised all of its 3 billion users» accounts.

It was revealed a few days later that the outage was caused by a hack on the network and that over 77 million user account details and payment details had been compromised.

But since the exploit is so different to the typical attack vector, users wouldn't even be alerted if their device gets compromised, leading to a hypothetical nightmare scenario (detailed in the video below) wherein a user spreads the «infection» to vulnerable phones and tablets simply by walking in their vicinity.

The ministry raised five questions for Facebook, including whether the personal data of Indian voters and users has been compromised by Cambridge Analytica or any other downstream entity in any manner, and gave the networking giant a deadline of April 7 to send detailed response.

Login details for nearly all of the site's users were compromised.

The Yahoo breaches appeared to have compromised nearly every Yahoo user's personal details at least once.