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Prince Harry handed Russian hoaxers his mobile phone number and personal email address

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Prince Harry gave Russian hoaxers pretending to be Greta Thunberg his mobile phone number and personal email address sparking security fears Prince Harry inadvertently gave Russian pranksters mobile number and email Royal insiders have blamed new PR advisers for the major security lapse  The two hoaxers posed as Greta Thunberg and her father to speak … Read more

Employee ID firm leaves 76,000 fingerprints exposed online with email addresses and phone numbers

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Employee ID company leaves 76,000 fingerprints exposed to hackers online along with email addresses and phone numbers Anteus Tecnolgia  develops and distributes Fingerprint Identification Systems Security researchers discovered their database  was unprotected The bucket contained  76,000 unique fingerprints of employees  It also had 81.5 million records that contained emails and telephone numbers Hackers could use … Read more

US Secret Service warns hackers are trading on coronavirus fears with phishing email scams

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Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. More than 4,000 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 110,000 have been infected. Here’s what we know so far: What is the coronavirus?  A coronavirus is a type … Read more

Broadband customers charged up to £90 a year to keep email addresses after they switch providers

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Some telecoms firms are charging ex-customers up to £7.50 every month to continue using their old email addresses, an investigation by BBC Radio 4’s Moneybox uncovered.  BT charges customers up to £7.50 to hold onto their address, equivalent to £90 annually. Meanwhile, TalkTalk charges previous customers £5 each month to keep their old email address – … Read more

Pep Guardiola’s email ‘hacked by rogue IT worker who tried to sell them for £100,000’

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Pep Guardiola’s email ‘hacked by rogue IT worker who tried to sell them for £100,000’ – and said they included transfer discussions ‘relating to Matthijs De Ligt and Sokratis’ Man City boss Pep Guardiola has reportedly been targeted by an IT hacker A man was arrested by Greater Manchester Police earlier this week He claimed … Read more

Teacher sends staff email telling them library is sh*t on Thursdays

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School’s head of literacy cringes after accidentally sending an all-staff email telling them the library is s*** on Thursdays – prompting other teachers to share their own howlers Amanda Morris, an Assistant Principal at John Cabot School in Bristol, shared with her Twitter followers the unfortunate email she’d sent to ALL staff Promoting World Book … Read more

App that lets you pay celebrities to do custom shout-outs found exposing passwords, email addresses

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Cameo app that lets users pay celebrities to do custom shout-outs was found exposing passwords, email addresses, and private videos Cameo was found to have credentials accessible in the code of its app The credentials gave access to Amazon buckets containing user data Data includes email addresses, hashed passwords, and full names Motherboard found that … Read more

Trump offered Assange a pardon if he said Russians didn’t play role in DNC email leak, court hears

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  The White House on Wednesday angrily denied a courtroom claim by the lawyer for Julian Assange that the WikiLeaks founder was offered a Donald Trump presidential pardon if he would provide evidence that Russia wasn’t behind the 2016 hacking of Democratic emails. Assange, 48, is on trial in London, and is wanted in the U.S. … Read more