Ethan Wolff-Mann reports: In September, entrepreneur Joshua Browder’s Do Not Pay chatbot website added a new skill: allowing people to sue Equifax for its monumental data breach that exposed the personal information of 145.5 million people, which included Social Security numbers. A few months later, the results are coming in and people are winning judgements…
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Hackers breached BeeToken’s email list and stole $1M worth of Ethereum
TNW reports: It appears cryptocurrency startup BeeToken, which promised to disrupt the home sharing industry by putting its service on the blockchain, has been hacked. The attackers are actively targeting its initial coin offering (ICO) with phishing attacks and have already duped gullible investors for over $1 million worth of Ethereum. The company has confirmed…
Study: Alarming Number of Fortune 500 Credentials Found in Data Leaks
Ben Layer reports: Data breaches are common in the news lately, but a recent study by credential monitoring firm VeriClouds focuses specifically on the credentials of Fortune 500 employees found in account leaks posted online. Using a corpus of 8 billion stolen credentials gathered over three years, the total number of employees of each Fortune…
‘Panty Buster’ Toy Left Private Sex Lives Of 50,000 Exposed
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Some might be considering the purchase of a special kind of pleasure-giving device for their partner as a gift. But they might want to rethink those plans: the quality of cybersecurity in newfangled, connected sex toys has been unsurprisingly shocking in recent years. And it doesn’t…
Coincheck hackers believed trying to move stolen cryptocurrency into exchanges
Reuters reports: Hackers who stole ¥58 billion ($532 million) worth of cryptocurrency from the Coincheck exchange last week are trying to move the stolen “XEM” coins, the foundation behind the digital currency said on Tuesday. NEM Foundation, creators of the XEM cryptocurrency, have traced the stolen coins to an unidentified account, and the account owner…
AU: Self-confessed’ hacker faces court over alleged theft of 33 GoGet rides
David Chau and Kathleen Calderwood report: The man accused of accessing the customer database of online car-sharing company GoGet is a “self-confessed” computer hacker, a court has heard. NSW Police have arrested a 37-year-old Illawarra man for allegedly hacking into the database of GoGet. Police allege the man illegally accessed and downloaded customer information on…