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
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…
Ca: Queen’s students affected by McMaster security breach
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…
Conspirator Who Hacked Mortgage Brokers Sentenced in Computer Hacking and Wire Fraud Scheme
From a January 19 press release from DOJ: Victor Alejandro Fernandez was sentenced in federal court today to 129 months in custody for his involvement in a conspiracy to steal and misuse mortgage customers’ sensitive personal information. Fernandez was charged along with Jason Ray Bailey, John Gordon Baden and Joel Nava with conspiracy to commit…
Official phpBB Download Links Were Compromised Yesterday
If you downloaded phpBB forum software on January 26, read this report by Catalin Cimpanu: An unknown attacker has compromised download links for the phpBB forum software, according to a statement released today by the phpBB development team. The hacker compromised only two downloads links, for the phpBB 3.2.2 full package and the phpBB 3.2.1 ->…
Coincheck hacked in ¥58 billion cryptocurrency heist, four years after Mt. Gox
Kazuaki Nagata reports: Echoing the Mt. Gox fiasco nearly four years ago, Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck disclosed Friday it had been hacked and lost about ¥58 billion ($532 million) worth of its holdings, sending clients into a panic about the fate of their virtual assets. If confirmed, the heist would surpass the ¥48 billion ($390…