He posed as a representative of Snap Inc. and texted more than 4,500 victims requesting their Snapchat access codes. When ...

A Rochester-area man was put on probation for a fatal highway collision he caused while distracted by his cellphone. Eric Wittlief, 23, of Oronoco was sentenced in Winona County District Court in ...

Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash algorithm to be hacked in an attempt to nudge users who continue using the ...

Despite rumors of a potential security breach after many Instagram users received unexpected password reset emails recently, the social media platform said there was no hack. According to a statement ...

Last Friday, a report from Malwarebytes claimed that data from nearly 17.5 million Instagram accounts is being sold on the dark web. The report cited multiple user reports claiming suspicious password ...

An Illinois man is facing several charges in connection to logging into women's Snapchat accounts and downloading then selling nude images. Trump says he may veto extension of health care subsidies ...

A US man from Illinois has been charged with hacking nearly 600 Snapchat accounts of women. He is said to have stolen private photos by posing as a Snap official and asking for login codes. The case ...

U.S. prosecutors have charged an Illinois man with orchestrating a phishing operation that allowed him to hack the Snapchat accounts of nearly 600 women to steal private photos and sell them online.

An Illinois man has been charged with hacking into the Snapchat accounts of nearly 600 women in order to steal their nude photos and sell them online, including to a former Northeastern University ...