What Do ADT, Vimeo, and a Rogue AI Have in Common? A Very Bad Week in Cybersecurity
Hackers stole millions of customer records from ADT, scraped user data from Vimeo, and a rogue AI wiped out a company database—and that's just the tip of the infosec iceberg this week.
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It’s been another big week for hacks, as the ShinyHunters ransomware group breached video platform Vimeo and home security company ADT. The hackers primarily got video metadata, titles, and email addresses from Vimeo. The ADT hack was worse: ShinyHunters obtained over 10 million records, including 5.5 million email addresses, names, physical addresses, and telephone numbers. In some cases, they got the last four digits of customers' Social Security numbers and their birthdates. Keep tabs on your identity out there. Identity theft isn’t the only thing you have to be worried about when your data is lost in a hack, however.
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