Business & Tech Apple and Facebook Both Duped By Hackers Posing as Law Enforcement, Handed Over Personal Data Phone numbers, home addresses, and (yikes!) internet browsing histories have been handed right over to hackers who approached tech companies while posing as police, and what’s more, most of the hackers were teenagers.
Business & Tech International Hackers Have Breached Nine Organizations, Says Bay Area Cybersecurity Firm At least one U.S. company, but probably more, is among several firms that a Santa Clara-based cybersecurity firm says has been infiltrated via some sort of password theft scheme that appears to be targeting the Department of Defense.
Business & Tech Video Streaming Service Twitch Got Breached Hard, Site’s Entire Source Code Posted Online SF-based gaming site Twitch pretty much had the keys to their kingdom snatched and posted on 4Chan, and since it’s owned by Amazon… is anything safe anymore?
SF News UC and Stanford Campus Systems Both Breached In Major Cyber Attack The rival schools have a new common enemy — the cybercriminals sending their students and faculty emails reading “Your personal data has been stolen and will be published."
SF News Disqus Reports Breach Affecting 17.5 Million Pre-2012 Users We’ve brought you plenty of troubling hacking news here at SFist recently, from the Yahoo email account hacks to the recent Whole Foods breach to, you know, that thing that got Donald
