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Twitter looks to beef up security after password breach

Posted February 5, 2013 - 11:49 by Emma Woollacott

Following last week's hack, Twitter appears to be planning to make logins more secure by introducing two-factor authentication.

Games companies agree to close sex offenders' accounts

Posted April 6, 2012 - 06:20 by Emma Woollacott

Seven video game companies have agreed to close the accounts of more than 3,500 registered sex offenders in New York State.

Sony locks out users after another hacking attack

Posted October 12, 2011 - 04:52 by Emma Woollacott

Sony's suspended over 93,000 user accounts after another major attack on the company's systems.

Google+ suspends accounts over ToS violations

Posted July 25, 2011 - 17:37 by Trent Nouveau

Mountain View has frozen or purged a number of Google+ accounts and related services such as Gmail/Docs for allegedly violating the company’s Terms of Service (ToS).

Citigroup says hack hit 360,000 credit cards

Posted June 16, 2011 - 06:11 by Kate Taylor

Citigroup's admitted that many more credit cards were compromised by its recent data breach than it indicated in its previous statement.

iTunes App Store accounts hacked

Posted July 5, 2010 - 07:25 by Emma Woollacott

In what's clearly been a busy weekend for hackers, reports are appearing that there has been suspicious activity over at the iTunes App Store.

FTC raps Twitter over critical privacy lapse

Posted June 24, 2010 - 16:38 by Aharon Etengoff

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Twitter have reached an agreement over charges that the latter entity failed to protect users from security breaches which allowed hackers to access a number of accounts.

Blizzard purges 320,000 cheaters from Battle.net

Posted April 21, 2010 - 13:12 by Trent Nouveau

Blizzard has confirmed a widespread purge of over 320,000 Warcraft III and Diablo II accounts that were found to be violating the (rather extensive and boring) Battle.net Terms of Use.