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Leaks and hacks

2026-03-22: 📚 Finished reading OSINT Techniques: Resources for Uncovering Online Information by Michael Bazzell and Jason Edison.

2025-07-16: Two years ago a data leak revealed the personal details of the thousands of Afghans who secretly helped the UK's armed forces in the decades long war

2025-04-26

A week after a major hack brought down 4chan and doxxed all its users, it seems like it may be dead for good

2025-04-16

Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins: People might regret using their actual email addresses.

2025-03-27

Days after the Signal leak, the Pentagon warned the app was the target of hackers: Via tricking people into using the linked devices feature to devices they don’t own.

2025-03-24

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans: The top US national security brass, VP and all, inadvertently included a journalist in their military ops groupchat.

2025-03-02: The Winterbreak exploit lets everyone jailbreak their Kindle

2025-01-14

Lawsuit: Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to quietly track driving behavior: Allstate taken to court for covertly using data from apps to track drivers and adjust or cancel their car insurance.

2024-12-05: Cybersecurity has gotten so bad that even the US government is imploring us to encrypt our communications

2024-12-04

U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid cyberattack: Chinese hackers have gotten into key telecommunications infrastructure.

Hackers breach Andrew Tate’s online university - obtain chat logs and leak data on 800,000 users: Imagine the levels of dystopia those chats probably complain whilst funding the reprehensible life of Tate

2024-12-03: Hackers leak data from Andrew Tate's 'university' of 'money making'

2024-11-30

Why you should use a different email address for every site: The list of things you might want to do in order to maintain some semblance of privacy/safety on the internet these days grows ever longer.

2024-11-26

Helpline for Yakuza victims fears it leaked their personal info: A Japanese government agency was phished.

2024-11-26: From The Register: A local Japanese government agency dedicated to preventing organized crime has …

2024-11-18

Ukrainian hackers breach former Russian commander’s computer: Romanchuk turns out to be more a chronically idle office slacker than a heroic warrior no matter whose side you’re on.

2024-10-21

Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications - US senator: Inevitably the centralisation and lack of encryption around push notifications makes them a useful source of surveillance material.

Governments Are Using Spyware on Citizens. Can They Be Stopped?: Companies like the NSO Group are happy to sell commercial spyware to governments who will predictably use it for bad things.

2024-10-04

Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021: Researchers discover ‘perfCtl’ - computer malware that, unusually, targets Linux and does all sorts of nasty things.

2024-10-02

Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System: Mildly terrifying episode of Veritasium showing how easy it is to hack almost any phone via exploiting the SS7 system.

Spy companies using Channel Islands to track phones around the world: The Channel Islands are a hotspot for the SS7 attacks that may allow hackers to track almost any phone’s location as well as intercepting calls and SMS.

2024-07-02: Last month Ticketmaster got hacked by a group known as ShinyHunters, the same group that previously …

2024-06-30: Microsoft accidentally leaks some of the source code behind their PlayReady DRM software. The …

2024-06-24: Another huge NHS data leak following a ransomware attack

2024-04-14: The 'mother of all breaches' saw billions of confidential data records leaked earlier this year