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The company has confirmed the incident but says no consumer data has been compromised. News 

Acer suffers from a huge data breach, 160 GB of data is sold

Sanjay Patil, ,

Acer is the latest company to face a massive data breach. 160GB of data was exposed and put up for sale to the highest bidder. Acer has confirmed the incident, claiming that hackers were able to break into a server that hosts documents used by the company’s technicians. Acer assures people that it does not believe that hackers have accessed millions of consumer records from a vast repository of stolen data. While the company did not provide details on the amount of data breached, a new post was spotted on…

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Reddit was alerted about the hack by its employee and was quick to restrict the attacker's access to its systems. News 

Reddit confirms it was hacked and no user information was exposed

Febin Mathew,

Reddit has admitted it was hacked this week, claiming it was a “sophisticated phishing” attack targeting its employees. Reddit shared this update and details of the breach in a post . The social forum mentioned that the hacking incident was reported on February 5, when the security of Reddit’s systems was breached. Having said that, Reddit assured that the user database has not been exposed in the hacking attempt, but the hackers have managed to access some internal documents, code and some internal business systems, Reddit mentioned in this post.…

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