One Percent of User Base Exposed in Scribd Data Breach
Document-sharing website Scribd announced this week it was hacked, the victim of what it’s calling a “deliberate attempt to access the email addresses and passwords of registered Scribd users.”
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Comcast passwords left unprotected online
User names and passwords belonging to more than 8,000 Comcast Internet customers were left exposed on the Web for at least two months. A post by Brad Stone on the Bits blog [NYTimes.com] details the situation, which was exposed by a Comcast customer from Pennsylvania.
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