Hackers infected 70 percent of storage devices that record data from D.C. police surveillance cameras eight days before President Trump’s inauguration and forced city officials to reinstall the entire network, according to D.C. police and the city’s technology office.
Hackers presumably working on behalf of the Chinese government may have stolen highly sensitive personnel files containing information about drug addictions, sexual proclivities and financial woes of millions of current and former US government workers.
Pennsylvania-based nonprofit health provider Maternal & Family Health Services has confirmed cybercriminals accessed the sensitive data of close to half a million people. MFHS revealed last week that it had been hit by ransomware that exposed the personal data of current and former patients, employees and vendors. The healthcare giant said it was made aware…
DetailsThe attackers who stole $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank probably hacked into software from the SWIFT financial platform that is at the heart of the global financial system, said security researchers at British defense contractor BAE Systems.
TWO hugely popular PlayStation and Xbox forums have been hacked leaving 2.5 million accounts exposed, it has emerged.
More than $8 million worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from BitKeep users’ wallets in an apparent cyberattack, the latest exploit to hit a decentralized financial network. BitKeep users reported via social media that their funds were being transferred without any activity on their part, online industry tracker Cointelegraph reported Monday. The number could be higher…
DetailsAs more and more things become connected to the internet, they all become more susceptible to hackers.
Hackers stole the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on an online hacking forum, a security researcher said Wednesday. The breach “will unfortunately lead to a lot of hacking, targeted phishing and doxxing”, Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity monitoring firm Hudson Rock, wrote on LinkedIn. He called it…
DetailsThe Democrats have been hacked again.
Hackers from a cybercriminal group linked to the Chinese government stole at least $20 million from the U.S. in COVID-19 relief benefits, the first known instance of foreign, state-sponsored actors tied to pandemic fraud, Secret Service officials told NBC News. The officials said that Chengdu-based cyber group APT41 was a “notable player” in its hundreds…
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