SRP Federal Credit Union, a South Carolina-based financial institution, had a major data breach impacting more than 240,000 people. The credit union handles highly sensitive information of hundreds of thousands of Americans, which is now in the hands of cybercriminals. SRP revealed in a notice that the data breach was part of a two-month attack … Read more
The search for missing Hawaiian photographer Hannah Kobayashi has taken a devastating twist. Her father, Ryan Kobayashi, tragically ended his life on Sunday while in Los Angeles searching for his daughter, who vanished earlier this month. The 58-year-old reportedly jumped from a parking garage at Los Angeles International Airport, overwhelmed by despair and the swirl … Read more
The website for controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate’s self-help site “The Real World” was reportedly hacked this week. The hackers were able to extract a trove of data from Tate’s site – formerly known as Hustler’s University – that included approximately 794,000 user names, 324,382 unique email addresses and both public and private chat … Read more
T-Mobile’s network was among the systems hacked in a damaging Chinese cyber-espionage operation that gained entry into multiple US and international telecommunications companies, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday citing people familiar with the matter. Hackers linked to a Chinese intelligence agency were able to breach T-Mobile as part of a monthslong campaign to spy on the cellphone communications of high-value intelligence targets, the Journal … Read more
A New York technology entrepreneur was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty last year to laundering funds stolen from Bitfinex, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, with the help of his wife. Ilya Lichtenstein, 35, hacked into Bitfinex’s network in 2016, using advanced hacking tools and techniques, and stole about 120,000 bitcoin, the Justice … Read more
Other countries are likely to be pulled into the Italian investigation. Calamucci, who previously boasted of penetrating the Pentagon with the Anonymous hacktivist collective, frequently referenced dozens of hackers working for him in Colchester, England. The firm also made use of servers in the United States and Lithuania, where they felt they were less vulnerable, according … Read more
The confidential data, which was allegedly sold to clients or used to blackmail businessmen and politicians, including former Milan Mayor Letizia Moratti, went back to at least 2019 and continued up to March 2024, a court document seen by Reuters showed. The Milan prosecutors allege the business intelligence agency tapped into three key databases: one … Read more
According to the minister, the number of cybersecurity incidents has doubled in the past year, but with the help of the interior ministry and the coordinated efforts of other agencies and the military, they successfully thwarted the August attack. Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak added that the Polish government is now working to update regulations on … Read more
Walt Disney was targeted by hackers who obtained sensitive internal company data including revenue figures from its Disney+ and ESPN+ streaming services as well as its Genie theme park passes, according to a report. A cyber-criminal operation known as “NullBulge” uploaded more than 1.1 terabytes of data in July that also included internal Slack messages … Read more
Social media giant Meta has blamed an Iranian hacker group for attempts to access the WhatsApp accounts of a series of diplomatic and political figures in the United States. The company — which runs Facebook and Instagram along with messaging service WhatsApp — said the known APT42 group was to blame, adding that WhatsApp had suspended … Read more
