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• How to remove personal information from Google search results

  2024-10-12

  privacy  google  data protection

  A Google search may return information about you that you don’t want it to get there. This method will help you remove such content from the search results.

  To do this, fill out the form: https://support.google.com/websearch/contact/content_removal_form.

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• Internet Archive hacked

  2024-10-10

  eqozqq

  Internet Archive  Wayback Machine

  archive  hack

  The «Wayback Machine» internet archive has suffered a data breach. A user authentication database containing 31 million unique records has been stolen.

  The database contains unique email addresses, Bcrypt encrypted passwords and other internal user data. The last record in the database is dated September 28, 2024. This is likely the date on which the database was hacked.

  Upon entering the site, visitors were greeted by a pop-up window that read:

  “Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive is running on sticks and constantly on the verge of a catastrophic security breach? This just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!”.

  HIBP is a data breach notification service called Have I Been Pwned, created by Troy Hunt, with whom threat actors typically share stolen data to add to the service.

  It is recommended that you change the passwords to your accounts on the service..

  Material taken from: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-archive-hacked-data-breach-impacts-31-million-users/, https://www.severreal.org/a/internet-archive-soobschil-ob-utechke-dannyh-31-milliona-polzovateley/33153615.html, https://meduza.io/news/2024/10/10/vzloman-internet-archive-v-utechke-dannye-millionov-polzovateley.

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• How to Check if Your Data Is in the Darknet Using Google

  2024-10-10

  eqozqq

  security

  darknet  data protection  privacy  google

  Google allows its users to check if their data is available on the Darknet.

  Specifically, you can check the status of your:

  • Email address
  • Password
  • Name
  • Phone number
  • Residential address
  • Date of birth

  To check your data, follow these steps:

  1. Go to Google.
  2. Click on your account icon in the upper right corner.
  3. Click on Manage your Google Account.
  4. Go to the Security tab.
  5. Scroll down to Dark web report.
  6. Go to See results.

  By following these steps, you can quickly verify if any of your personal information has been exposed on the Darknet.

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