Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John Gay, the Inspector General of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (the “Port Authority”), announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging DANIEL ABAYEV and PETER LEYMAN with two counts of conspiracy to commit computer intrusions. The Indictment…
Category: Hack
Hacker steals 14 BAYC worth over 852 ETH ($1.07 million)
Rodney Holmes reports: Over the weekend, an infamous hacker known as Jason Brubeck succeeded in stealing around 850 ETH ($1+ million) worth of the Bored Ape collection, leaving his victim completely devastated. The news was first broken by @Snake, who were able to detect and identify suspicious activity through phishing tactics with impressive accuracy. Read more…
Social Blade admits to being hacked
Damien Black reports: A popular data analytics tool that tracks YouTube and other major social media platforms has admitted to being hacked. Social Blade issued a statement saying it had been notified of a systems breach on December 14, while insisting no credit card data had been leaked. However, it said other personally identifying information,…
TPG Telecom says up to 15,000 email accounts of business customers hacked
Reuters reports: Australia’s No. 2 telecom provider TPG Telecom Ltd (TPG.AX) said on Wednesday its cyber security adviser Mandiant notified the company of unauthorised access to an exchange service that hosts email accounts of up to 15,000 business customers. The hack was an attempt to access customers’ cryptocurrency and financial information, TPG said. Read more…
Uber suffers new data breach after attack on vendor, info leaked online
Lawrence Abrams reports: Early Saturday morning, a threat actor named ‘UberLeaks’ began leaking data they claimed was stolen from Uber and Uber Eats on a hacking forum known for publishing data breaches. The leaked data includes numerous archives claiming to be source code associated with mobile device management platforms (MDM) used by Uber and Uber Eats…
Arizona Man Arrested For Point-Of-Sale Cyber Intrusions
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the arrest of FOSTER COOLEY for charges in connection with a scheme to conduct cyber intrusions targeting a New York-based…