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 'Coordinated Attack' on Twitter Affected 130 Accounts, Raises Concerns Over Hackable System Functions In an unprecedented series of events, 130 "high-profile" Twitter accounts — two of which belong to the likes of Elon Musk and Kanye West — were hacked in waves on Wednesday, leaving cybersecurity experts worried about some of Twitter’s vulnerable system functions.
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
SF News Hacker Group Claims Responsibility For Friday's Attack And Warns Of More To Come Friday's attack on critical internet infrastructure is likely the first of many, with a hacking group claiming responsibility and saying that it was only a test and that another larger attack is still
SF News [Update] Twitter, Spotify And Other Sites Suffered Outages Due To DDOS Attacks A number of websites, including Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify and Github, were down this morning, apparently due to a DDOS attack on the DNS provider Dyn that mostly affected the East Coast of the
SF News Verizon Angling For $1B Discount On Yahoo Following Hack And Spying Revelations Demonstrating that allegedly allowing the US government to scan hundreds of millions of your users' emails may not just be abetting a violation of the 4th Amendment but also a huge financial liability,
SF News Report: Apple Was Informed Of iCloud's Security Flaw Prior to Celebgate Apple is having a Benghazi moment. Months before perverts worldwide celebrated the leak of nude pics of numerous noted celebrities, Apple was told that such a thing could happen —by the same security
SF News Some Pinterest Accounts Hacked, Festooned With Butts Multiple Pinterest accounts, including that of TechCrunch editor Alexia Tsotsis, were hacked and covered with pictures of butts yesterday. Behold: Dear @Pinterest my accounts been hacked with someone posting hundreds of butt pictures
SF News Listen To Tech Writer Recount Dreadful Post-Hack Stress Wired Gadget Lab’s senior writer Mat Honan's digital life was hacked last week. In addition to a detailed article on Monday, he also gave a rather jarring interview about what happened and