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People are taking Equifax to small-claims court via chatbot — and winning

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Dissent

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

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Dissent

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…

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Former University of Kansas student accused of computer hacking faces 18 felony charges

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Dissent

Sara Shepherd reports: A former University of Kansas freshman, in fear of flunking out, successfully used a device called a keystroke logger to steal instructors’ confidential login information, hack into multiple campus computers and change F’s to A’s. Although the hacking apparently went unnoticed for most of two semesters, the student eventually got caught and…

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Coincheck hackers believed trying to move stolen cryptocurrency into exchanges

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Dissent

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…

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AU: Self-confessed’ hacker faces court over alleged theft of 33 GoGet rides

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Dissent

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…

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Ca: Queen’s students affected by McMaster security breach

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Dissent

Iain Sherriff-Scott reports: After a cyber intrusion at McMaster University in November, some Queen’s students have been notified their admissions information may have been compromised. In a letter sent from Melissa Pool of McMaster’s University Registrar to several Queen’s students who had previously applied to the University, Pool explained, “an unauthorized individual accessed a secured…

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