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…
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‘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…
Ontario Progressive Conservative Party database hacked: Sources
CP24 reports that the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party’s internal database was locked up by a ransomware attack in early November. The incident is first being acknowledged now, it seems. The database contains the names, phone numbers and other personal information of over a million eligible voters in the province, as well as party supporters, donors…
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 ->…