Social media and email hacking reports jumped last year, says Action Fraud. A total of 35,434 reports were made to the fraud and cyber crime reporting service in 2024, compared with 22,530 in 2023.

Social media and email account hacking reports jumped last year, according to Action Fraud data. A total of 35,434 reports were made to the fraud and cybercrime reporting service in 2024, compared ...

Gmail users have been warned that a notorious group of hackers is targeting account holders after gaining access to a huge database. The Google attack originated from a breach of Salesforce's cloud ...

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TalkTalk has finally begun to reveal the scale of the damage caused by the much-publicised hack, which took its website offline on October 21. While TalkTalk isn’t revealing the exact numbers involved ...

A Met Police chief was reluctant to re-examine an email suggesting newspaper phone hacking was more widespread than previously thought, an inquiry heard. There was "a degree of pushback" from ...

Social media and email account hacking reports jumped last year, according to Action Fraud (Alamy/PA) Social media and email account hacking reports jumped last year, according to Action Fraud data. A ...

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Action Fraud has launched a campaign, supported by Meta, to encourage people to enable two-step verification. The largest site “dedicated to deepfake abuse” has 13.4 million hits every month, ...