Ryan de Souza reports: DAC Group, a Toronto-based digital & content marketing agency has suffered a security breach on their server resulting in data theft of 93,000 customer accounts — In normal circumstances it would be just another security breach but what makes this breach exceptional is the 77,000 leaked accounts from Bloomington, Illinois-based State Farm,…
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GoToMyPC accounts hacked, all customer passwords reset
Graham Cluley reports: Experiencing a problem logging into GoToMyPC? There’s a reason for that. Your password has been reset by Citrix, the company which runs GoToMyPC.com, after hackers reportedly attacked the service. Read more on GrahamCluley.com. I wonder what the “very sophisticated password attack” was.
Cryptocurrency-Backed Venture Capital Fund Hacked; Ether Plunges
Olga Kharif reports: Hackers moved some digital money from the Decentralized Autonomous Organization, a cryptocurrency-backed venture capital fund, sending the price of ether — the virtual currency underlying the project — plunging. Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, which supports ether, asked exchanges in a Reddit post to “please pause ETH and DAO trading, deposits and withdrawals until further notice,”…
BesaMafia hitman site hacked again
Remember when BesaMafia, a dark web site where people can allegedly hire hitmen was hacked and data was dumped in May? What could be worse, right? Well, they could be hacked again and their data dumped again. The hacker known as “bRpsd” has again embarrassed the site, which claims to be linked to the Albanian Mafia, by…
Over 2,100 servers in Malaysia hacked
Nicholas Cheng reports: Malaysia’s national cybersecurity agency said it detected intrusions in several local servers for years and issued advisories to victims but ignorance was still making them easy targets for hackers. It was found that over 2,100 servers have been compromised and their access sold to hackers for as low as RM29 (US$6) up…
DNC hacker slams CrowdStrike, publishes opposition memo on Donald Trump
Steve Ragan reports: A hacker claiming responsibility for the DNC hack that made headlines earlier this week has slammed the security company responsible for the incident response, and leaked several documents compromised during the incident – including a 235-page opposition memo on Donald Trump. On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that hackers – believed to be Russian…