What the Hack? Podcast
What the Hack? Podcast
What the Hack? Podcast
What the Hack? Podcast

Data Security

The latest on data breaches and cybersecurity and data security by Adam K Levin.

Twitter Hack
The personal Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, Warren Buffett in addition to the official...
MGM data breach
The discovery of a database for sale on the dark web suggests the 2019 data breach of MGM Resorts was significantly larger than initially...
2020 data breach
2020 is on the path to becoming a record-breaking year for data breaches and compromised personal data. A recent article released by cybersecurity and antivirus...
Domain hack
There is no overestimating the value of your company's domain name. Whether you work for a big brand or run a mom-and-pop dot-com, the goal...
Russian hackers
A Russia-based hacking group is exploiting the current Covid-19 pandemic to target and compromise U.S. companies with multiple strains of malware, according to a...
Ransomware
We're not even halfway through 2020, and already it's been a record-breaking year for ransomware attacks. Barely a week goes by without reports of a new strain or variant...
Contact tracing malware
Phony contact-tracing apps meant to mitigate the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic are installing ransomware on mobile devices. One app billed itself, “The Covid-19 Tracer...
BlueLeaks
269 gigabytes of potentially sensitive data collected from more than 200 police departments across the country were leaked online last week. The data, called “BlueLeaks,”...
lax cybersecurity
CIA-developed hacking tools stolen in 2016 were compromised by an organizational culture of lax cybersecurity, according to an internal memo. In a 2017 memo recently...
Dating data leak
An unsecured Amazon Web Services (AWS) database leaked the personal information of hundreds of thousands of users of several niche and special interest dating...