bTrade Newsletter “SHIFT” – Winter 2013
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Data Security Breach at Cupid Media Exposes 42 Million Unencrypted Passwords
On November 13th, security journalist, Brian Krebs, reported that cybercriminals had accessed personally identifiable information (PII) of up to 42 million customers of Australian online-dating company, Cupid Media. Every data breach incident is potentially significant, for both the targeted organization and its customers/vendors/partners. But what makes this data breach incident noteworthy is that all the stolen passwords were stored in unencrypted plain text. (more)
