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Hackers demand dosh to not leak stolen Canadian patient, staff records
2018-07-18 19:45

Thieves turns to media for help blackmail, er, compensation for their, uh, research Hackers say they will leak patient and employee records stolen from a Canadian healthcare provider unless they...

Hackers Demand $770,000 Ransom From Canadian Banks
2018-06-01 12:33

Cybercrime: FBI Says Ransomware, Extortion Continue to DominateHackers have reportedly demanded a ransom from Bank of Montreal and Simplii Financial in exchange for not dumping 90,000 customers'...

Two Canadian Banks Probe Alleged Exposure of Customer Data
2018-05-30 17:18

Fraudsters Claim Breach of 90,000 Bank of Montreal and Simplii AccountsTwo of Canada's biggest banks are investigating claims by "fraudsters" that they accessed their customers' data. At risk:...

Canadian Hacker Jailed For 5 Years Following Yahoo Breach
2018-05-30 11:48

Hacker-for-Hire Karim Baratov Fed Stolen Passwords to Alleged Russian OfficerCanadian citizen Karim Baratov has been sentenced to serve five years in U.S. federal prison after he admitted to...

Fraudsters Claim To Hack Two Canadian Banks
2018-05-29 21:15

Two Canadian banks reported that they may be targets of a hack after fraudsters claimed that they electronically accessed personal and account information.

Major Canadian Banks Investigating Data Breach Claims
2018-05-29 13:32

Two major Canadian banks informed customers on Monday that they launched an investigation after hackers claimed to have obtained personal and account information as a result of a data breach. read more

Canadian Firm Linked to Cambridge Analytica Exposed Source Code
2018-03-27 05:59

Source code belonging to Canada-based digital advertising and software development company AggregateIQ has been found by researchers on an unprotected domain. The exposed files appear to confirm...

LeakedSource Operator Busted by Canadian Police
2018-01-16 10:48

Canadian Charged With Selling Access to Stolen Logins, Earning $247,000Canadian police have charged a 27-year-old man with running LeakedSource, which sold access to 3.1 billion stolen login...

Canadian Man Charged Over Leak of Three Billion Hacked Accounts
2018-01-16 03:29

An Ontario man made his first court appearance Monday to answer charges of running a website that collected personal and password data from some three billion accounts, and sold them for profit. read more

Canadian Pleads Guilty to Hacking Yahoo
2017-11-29 18:39

A 22 year-old Canadian national accused of carrying attacks on Yahoo pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges returned by a grand jury in the Northern District of California in February 2017. read more