Day: June 15, 2016

Hundreds of VerticalScope forums hacked, leaking 45 million user accounts

Posted on by Robin Edgar

the database shows email addresses, passwords that were hashed and salted passwords with MD5 (an algorithm that nowadays is easy to crack), as well as a user’s IP address (which in some cases can determine location), and the site that the record was taken from. Source: Exclusive: Hundreds of forums hacked, leaking millions of users’ Read more about Hundreds of VerticalScope forums hacked, leaking 45 million user accounts[…]

Chinese loan sharks seek salacious selfies as collateral

Posted on by Robin Edgar

The selfies are accepted as collateral for loans up to 15,000 yuan – about US$2,200 – on a whopping 30 per cent rate of interest per week. That may, however, have to do with translation: China Daily says the interest rate is 30 per cent per year. As well as the selfies, borrowers had to Read more about Chinese loan sharks seek salacious selfies as collateral[…]