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Some of Twitter's biggest accounts got hacked. It could have been much worse.

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Jul 16, 2020
Zeynep Tufekci, a technology and society expert at the University of North Carolina, hopes the hacks on Obama, Gates and others act as a wake-up call ahead of the election.
Twitter's logo outside the New York Stock Exchange in 2013. Wednesday's hacks demonstrate the high level of risk associated with the messaging service.
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Is it evil? A year of email controversies

by Donna Tam
Sep 30, 2016
Private email servers, DNC emails, hacked Yahoo accounts — we take a look back at recent email drama and what it says about the technology.
An environmentalist dressed as a mock lobbyist holds a banner reading 'Recruting e-mail hackers' during the third day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Passwords? There's a technology for those

by Gigi Douban
Sep 23, 2016
Yahoo tells its hacked users more than they ever imagined about passwords.
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V-Tech hack affected millions of children — is anyone safe?

by Molly Wood , Ben Johnson and Mukta Mohan
Dec 1, 2015
Hacks are common now, but going after children's information is a whole new ballpark.
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Ashley Madison user information leaks

by Tracey Samuelson
Aug 19, 2015
The myth of privacy on the Web has been exploded once and for all.
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The anatomy of equipment: simple hacks with Money Mark

by Ben Johnson and James Perla
Aug 17, 2015
Money Mark talks about hacking gear to reveal what's behind the machine.
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One number to rule them all

by Tracey Samuelson
Jul 10, 2015
Universal identifiers like Social Security numbers are a big target for hackers.
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No hack in Illinois

by Marc Sanchez
Dec 5, 2011
Merely a vacation
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