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Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

MacRumors hacker who took 860,000 passwords speaks: “We're not terrorists”, November 13, 2013, Dan Goodin, Ars Technica
World of Warcraft users hit by account-hijacking malware attack, January 6, 2014, Dan Goodin, Ars Technica
Password hack of vBulletin.com fuels fears of in-the-wild 0-day attacks, November 18, 2013, Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

How an epic blunder by Adobe could strengthen hand of password crackers, November 1, 2013, Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

Engineers flout universal taboo by encrypting 130 million pilfered passwords.

- How Adobe's messy password breach can spill to sites like Diapers.com, November 11, 2013, Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

— Ark25 (talk) 05:51, 8 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

Early cyberattacks

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Latest comment: 9 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

These early cyberattacks are not covered:

-- 93.141.0.87 (talk) 15:10, 7 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

condense stolen data sections to one 'data breaches' section with subsections of data type?

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Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Should the sections for the various types of stolen data be condensed to one section? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joustice (talk • contribs) 20:55, 19 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

Another cyberattack

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Latest comment: 6 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I recently made an article that passed AFC that I believe should be added into this article, but I don’t think any current section fits the incident:

2024 Mobile Guardian security breach

This had a global impact but mostly affected Singapore, so I think this should be added, thx guys 𝕲𝖎𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖌™ :) 06:00, 30 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

A page that knows where it met you.

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Early cyberattacks

condense stolen data sections to one 'data breaches' section with subsections of data type?

Another cyberattack