A fake Apple email about app-specific passwords claims a $2,990 PayPal charge and urges recipients to call a support number, but it is a phishing scam.

A massive leak has exposed more than 183 million email passwords, including tens of millions linked to Gmail accounts, in what cybersecurity analysts are calling one of the biggest credential dumps ...

Password hygiene might be going downhill for people with .gov email addresses, according to a new identity exposure report released by cyber crime analytics company SpyCloud. SpyCloud uses recaptured ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive data leak has exposed more than 183 million email passwords for Gmail and other web services over the past several ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. A July 7 identity threat report from the eSentire Threat ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Update: Instagram has issued an official response to the password reset email issue, stating there was no data breach involved.

If you have not checked your credentials lately, now is the time. A staggering 1.3 billion unique passwords and 2 billion unique email addresses surfaced online. This event is one of the largest ...

Last year, I saw a thread where someone forgot their e-mail password and somebody recommended a program that logs the incoming and outgoing data on the network, including e-mail passwords that are ...

Recovering your Microsoft account password is easy. However, things can be challenging if you have forgotten your email address or username. You only have limited ways to find out your email address ...

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