Sentences with phrase «obtained by hackers»

The first of these is security, since face and fingerprint data can be more easily obtained by hackers from a distance, while heart - based biometrics are invisible and harder to illegally gather.

The information obtained by hackers included usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords, «the majority with the hashing function called bcrypt used to secure passwords», according to a MyFitnessPal statement.

While it hasn't provided any numbers on how many customers were affected, Forever 21 did say that in most cases, card numbers, expiration dates and verification codes, but not cardholder names, were obtained by hackers.

Some of the data behind these figures comes from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, which was the source of the «Climategate» emails obtained by hackers.

Rather it is through some of the biggest hacks, on the world's largest companies, that most personal information is obtained by hackers.

Chief executive Yancey Strickler says customers» email addresses were taken, but no credit card information was obtained by hackers.

If this security information is obtained by a hacker who uses the information to misappropriate virtual currency, there is no way for the true owner of that virtual currency to recover it.

A thick file of private emails and unpublished documents generated by an array of climate scientists over 13 years was obtained by a hacker from a British university climate research center and has since spread widely across the Internet starting Thursday afternoon.

The British university has contended that the messages were illegally obtained by a hacker, who posted them on Web sites of groups critical of the current scientific consensus that human activity has caused dangerous changes to the global climate.

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The hackers did this by obtaining, then using, the AWS logon credentials of one of Uber's software developers.

Canada was also called a prime target for cybercrime, state - sponsored attacks and lone hackers, said the final draft version of the April 2016 report, which was obtained by The Canadian Press via the Access to Information Act.

Zest Dental Solutions of Carlsbad has notified the California Attorney General's Office that it was hit by hackers who may have obtained credit - card information from an undisclosed number of customers.

However, and perhaps unrelatedly, some reports have suggested that Flynn was involved in yet another apparent effort to obtain Hillary Clinton's deleted emails from Russian hackers in 2016, undertaken by Peter Smith, a Republican consultant unconnected to the Trump campaign.

Another way outsiders may be able to identify anonymized files is by cross referencing them with other sensitive files that hackers and thieves have obtained in recent years.

The culprits were eventually arrested by German authorities after Gabe Newell pretended he was interested in hiring one of the hackers to work at Valve and obtained his contact information.

Emails obtained by political hackers from a US cyber-security firm called HBGary Federal suggest that a remarkable technological armoury is being deployed to drown out the voices of real people.

By doing so, you will make it more difficult for Internet hackers to guess your password and obtain access to your personal information.

United States intelligence agencies believe the documents were originally obtained by Russia - linked hackers.

FireEye informed the public that to their knowledge hackers used spear phishing, «a fraudulent method of sending emails to make them look like they were sent by someone you know, and dispersed malware to obtain virtual cash illicitly.»

A hacker obtains a REALTOR ®'s transaction management / e-signature system login credentials by using a phishing email that looks like it's from the transaction management system.