The US Navy announced last night that one of its contractors had lost the personal details for 134,386 current and former US sailors.
A hacking group using the name Amn3s1a Team has dumped data online that they claim to have stolen from several Mega.nz servers. In a statement released following the public data dump, Mega Chairman Stephen Hall confirmed the incident but said no user data was compromised.
The mega breaches keep coming with a reported data leak of 33 million accounts for the QIP.RU Russian instant messaging service. What's worse, like the recent Rumbler.ru mega breach, the QIP.RU passwords were stored in plain-text rather than being encrypted.
A man has been arrested by officers from the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit as part of the investigation into the hack on VTech servers. As reported earlier this month, the personal information of close to 5 million parents and 200,000 children was accessed by a hacker who broke into VTech's servers.
A security breach in VTech has allowed a hacker to get the personal information of about 5 million parents and over 200,000 children. To make matters worse, it was discovered this weekend that picture's of children who use the VTech service and their text messages with their parents were obtained as well.