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The reality of a massive security breach

by Kai Ryssdal and Bennett Purser
Jul 30, 2019
A statistician breaks down what's behind the big, scary numbers.
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Google Plus users exposed to security vulnerability

by Jed Kim
Oct 9, 2018
A software glitch left private data of more than 496,000 users of the social media network open to potential misuse.
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What to do when a couple of security flaws are affecting almost every computer in the world

by David Brancaccio
Jan 4, 2018
An analyst walks us through the Meltdown and Spectre bugs.
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Uber reveals cover-up of hack affecting 57 million riders and drivers

by Marketplace Contributor
Nov 22, 2017
Uber's new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, has criticized the way the company dealt with the security breach.
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The largest data breach in history was bigger than we thought

by Amy Scott and Kristin Schwab
Oct 5, 2017
All Yahoo accounts created before 2013 have been hacked.
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Equifax dumps CEO in wake of damaging data breach

by Marketplace Contributor
Sep 26, 2017
The breach exposed the information of about 143 million Americans.
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How the Equifax hack could have been avoided

by Kai Ryssdal
Sep 18, 2017
The breach might have been stopped with a system update. But it won't be the last big hack.
Internet security firms sometimes “spend weeks in sort of all-out war with hackers,” Lily Hay Newman says.
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Chipotle's data breach affects customers nationwide

by Marketplace Contributor
May 29, 2017
The stolen data can be used to clone credit cards.
Online orders account for almost a fifth of sales at Chipotle. Above, the restaurant's workers fill orders.
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Password breach renews focus on authentication

by Molly Wood
Aug 7, 2014
What does the future hold for passwords after another breach?
A Facebook login page. Terms of Services agreements for such services have received renewed recent attention.
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Goodbye Norton anti-virus software

by Stacey Vanek Smith
May 5, 2014
The demise of anti-virus software.
A customer walks past anti-virus software at an Office Max store in Miami, Florida. Senior vice president of Symantec Information Security Brian Dye said in the Wall Street Journal that anti-virus software is "dead."
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