hacks
The blockchain site Poly Network said hackers found a way into its system and then stole thousands of digital tokens with an estimated value of more than $600 million, making it perhaps the biggest cryptocurrency heist ever. Poly Network is a Defi (meaning decentralized finance) provider that lets users move tokens on one blockchain to another network. The company posted […]
Personal information for more than 533 million Facebook users across 106 different countries was published over the weekend in what’s being described as a “low level hacking forum.” Of the more than 533 million reported users, more than 32 million of them are said to be based in the U.S. Information shared to the hacker-utilized site—as […]
On Monday officials in Pinellas County, Florida held a press conference in which they made an announcement that an unidentified hacker had remotely gotten into a panel that controls the water treatment system for the city of Oldsmar, and then greatly bumped up the amount of sodium hydroxide (a.k.a. lye) in the water supply. Pinellas County Sheriff […]
Apple would like you to update your iPhone and iPad software as soon as possible due to possible security problems. The iOS 14.4 update, which was made available on Tuesday, is aimed at patching what 9to5Mac notes was “a security vulnerability in the kernel” that potentially affected models iPhone 6s and later, as well as iPad […]
Fort Bragg’s official Twitter account was deactivated Wednesday afternoon, following a series of lewd messages posted to the page. Twitter users noticed that around 4:30 p.m. ET, the military base’s verified account began responding to another account featuring adult content. User @Quinnfinite10 had shared a post about an individual who had complained about the pubic hair displayed on her OnlyFans page. […]
Security officials in the U.S. and elsewhere have accused Russia of a hacking effort linked to COVID-19 vaccine research, Vice reports. On Thursday, the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre shared an advisory message discussing the alleged activities of a group known by the names APT29, Cozy Bear, and the Dukes. In an accompanying statement, Paul Chichester—Director […]
Hackers have infiltrated the systems of Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks, a law firm that counts a number of high-profile artists and musicians as clients. The firm’s site is down as hackers claim to have 756 GB of data including contracts and personal e-mails related to clients, per Page Six‘s report late Tuesday. The hackers […]
Reyes Daniel Ruiz, a former Yahoo software engineer, has admitted to hacking into thousands of user accounts “primarily in search of sexual images and videos.” On Monday the former employee pleaded guilty in federal court to abusing his work access to crack user passwords and access internal Yahoo systems, specifically targeting “younger women,” including co-workers and […]
On Monday, Capital One admitted that personal info, which includes the names, phone numbers, addresses, and credit scores for roughly 100 million people in the U.S., plus another 6 million in Canada, were acquired by a hacker who has since been arrested by the FBI. CNN went on to describe the data breach as “one […]
A maddening data breach that affected 147 million people has now resulted in a record-setting settlement. Credit reporting agency Equifax will be forking up to $700 million as part of a self-described “resolution” to the class-action litigation that has spawned from the 2017 breach. Per a report from CNN, the proposed settlement could very well go down […]
