Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. It’s one thing to find databases of stolen credentials on the ...

Millions of people have been placed on high alert after reports that a data breach has taken place over many popular social media apps and emails. Anyone that has an email account or uses apps such as ...

The RockYou2024 leak, which exposed almost 10 billion passwords in July of last year, might seem like old news, but its impact is still felt today. It's considered ...

While it's not as large in scale as the latest data breach that leaked over 16 billion passwords, another incident has exposed passwords and other sensitive information across some of the most popular ...

One of the biggest stories of the year was the leak of 16 billion passwords — credentials now being used in ongoing hack ...

Every now and then, you'll find people posting on the public forums that their Facebook account has been hacked. Since we upload a lot of personal details to our Facebook profiles, such as photographs ...