Employee data leaks from most of world’s biggest firms—and UK tops list (via ArstechnicaUK)

Credentials discovered from workers at 97 percent of Forbes-ranked companies.

http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/09/employee-data-leaks-world-biggest-firms-uk-tops-list/

"email and password combinations belonging to more than five million people working at 97 percent of the top 1,000 companies are apparently available, including around 300,000 stolen from adult dating sites like AshleyMadison, AdultFriendFinder (AFF), and Mate1."


ALERT Hacktivist collective The Impact Team could be targeting Twitter, Facebook and other giant sites
Like Match Group?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/alert-hacktivist-collective-impact-team.html
 "Espionage is for economic interests, not terrorism"
article: What Exactly Are the USA NSA Hackers Trying to Accomplish?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/article-what-exactly-are-usa-nsa.html
ALERT Russian-speaking hackers breach 97 websites, many of them online dating ones.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/08/alert-russian-speaking-hackers-breach.html
 
"These sophisticated scammers were able to hijack the PlentyOfFish"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/these-sophisticated-scammers-were-able.html
Dark Web Hacker Steals 27 Million Email Addresses & Passwords From Mate1
http://globaldatinginsights.com/2016/03/01/dark-web-hacker-steals-27m-email-addresses-passwords-from-mate1-com/
AshleyMadison security protocols violated privacy laws, watchdog says
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/ashleymadison-security-protocols.html
 
Myspace hacked? Same as ever. Nobody cares.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/myspace-hacked-same-as-ever-nobody-cares.html

Info from AFF data breach, by McAfee
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/06/info-from-aff-data-breach-by-mcafee.html

The hackers hacked? Badoo (2 June 2016)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/the-hackers-hacked-badoo-2-june-2016.html
And eHarmony?
http://www.eharmony.com/blog/update-on-compromised-passwords/
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/russians-again-eharmony-hacked.html
and Zoosk?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/zoosk-hacked-another-hacking-incident.html
 
article: Talk Talk, AshleyMadison and now Apple show no company is immune from cyber attack
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/article-talk-talk-ashleymadison-and-now.html