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British teenager hacked top ranking US officials using social engineering
2018-01-22 16:58

How did British teenager Kane Gamble, who at the time was only 15 years old, manage to break into email accounts of the CIA and DNI chiefs, as well as gain access to a number of sensitive...

Norwegian health authority hacked, patient data of nearly 3 million citizens possibly compromised
2018-01-18 16:52

Hackers have breached the systems of the Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (Helse Sør-Øst RHF), and possibly made off with personal information and health records of some 2.9...

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

OnePlus Site’s Payment System Reportedly Hacked to Steal Credit Card Details
2018-01-15 18:03

This year's first bad news for OnePlus users—a large number of OnePlus customers are reporting of fraudulent credit card transactions after buying products from the Chinese smartphone...

Pentagon Hacked in New U.S. Air Force Bug Bounty Program
2017-12-18 15:43

The Hack the Air Force 2.0 bug bounty program kicked off earlier this month with researchers finding a critical vulnerability that could have been exploited to gain access to a network of the U.S....

Largest Crypto-Mining Exchange Hacked; Over $70 Million in Bitcoin Stolen
2017-12-07 09:33

Bitcoin is breaking every record—after gaining 20% jump last week, Bitcoin price just crossed the $14,800 mark in less than 24 hours—and there can be no better reason for hackers to put all of...

Imgur—Popular Image Sharing Site Was Hacked In 2014; Passwords Compromised
2017-11-25 00:29

Only after a few days of Uber admitting last year's data breach of 57 million customers, the popular image sharing site disclosed that it had suffered a major data breach in 2014 that compromised...

After Getting Hacked, Uber Paid Hackers $100,000 to Keep Data Breach Secret
2017-11-22 01:38

Uber is in headlines once again—this time for concealing last year's data breach that exposed personal data of 57 million customers and drivers. On Tuesday, Uber announced that the company...

Uber Hacked: Information of 57 Million Users Accessed in Covered-Up Breach
2017-11-22 00:46

Uber Covered Up Massive Hack in 2016 for More Than a Year read more

Has Everyone Really Been Hacked?
2017-11-21 17:54

There is little doubt that fear sells security products, hikes law enforcements agency (LEA) budgets and sells newspapers. Both the security industry and government agencies benefit from...