Catalin Cimpanu reports: The hacking crew that promised to launch DDoS attacks on the Pokemon GO servers on August 1 suffered a minor setback yesterday after someone hacked their site, dumped the database, and shared the data with data breach index service LeakedSource. The hacking crew’s name is PoodleCorp, a relatively new unit on the cyber-crime scene,…
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Bitfinex Suspends Operations after Security Breach
Gautham N reports: One of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges has suspended operations following a security incident which led to the loss of Bitcoin held on the exchange. The breach in the platform’s security was discovered earlier today, after which Bitfinex put all trading activities on hold. According to the statement published by Bitfinex, the breach has affected…
Iranian ISP ‘Daba’ Hacked by Israeli Hacker; Login Data Leaked
Waqas reports: An Israeli hacker going by the handle of Zurael_sTz has hacked the official website of Iranian Internet services provider Daba and leaked login credentials of thousands of registered users online earlier today. Zurael_sTz who has been hacking Palestinian, Egyptian and Jordanian sites in recent past took his latest breach to Twitter and shared 3 files containing leaked data…
Yahoo ‘Aware’ Hacker Is Advertising 200 Million Supposed Accounts on Dark Web
Joseph Cox reports: A notorious cybercriminal is advertising 200 million of alleged Yahoo user credentials on the dark web, and the company has said it is “aware” of the hacker’s claims, but has not confirmed nor denied the legitimacy of the data. On Monday, the hacker known as Peace, who has previously sold dumps of Myspaceand LinkedIn,…
Banks on the defense following hack of 410,000 Vietnam Airlines VIP member accounts
Tuoi Tre News reports: Two Vietnamese commercial banks have taken measures to protect customers who have used their cards in transactions with Vietnam Airlines, in the wake of a breach concerning more than 400,000 membership credentials of the national flag carrier. An alleged group of Chinese hackers compromised the Vietnam Airlines system on Friday, stealing information from…
SwiftKey Leak Spreads Data Among Users
LuLu Chang reports: It’s supposed to be predicting the next word or now, emoji, that you want to use, but SwiftKey is in trouble after users discovered that bad suggestions were actually the result of a data leak. The British keyboard app that was acquired by Microsoft earlier this year is known for its approachable use of artificial intelligence…