Hackers

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Hacker Grabs FBI No Fly List Off Of Unprotected Server

B. Simmons January 23, 2023

Not featured: salacious images of J. Edgar Hoover A 23-year-old Swiss hacker, one maia arson crimew, apparently found the U.S. No Fly List on an unprotected server. This news comes from the Daily Dot....

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134 Hideous Ape NFT’s Stolen After Bored Ape Yacht Club Instagram Was Hacked

B. Simmons April 26, 2022

Why are they worth so much money? You might be familiar with Bored Ape Yacht Club, purveyors of those ugly monkey NFT’s you see people with. Well, it turns out that their Instagram account...

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Crypto.com Experiences ‘Unauthorized Activity’; Halts Withdrawals For 14 Hours

B. Simmons January 18, 2022

Maybe it was North Korea? On Monday, Crypto.com suspended withdrawals following what was termed “Unauthorized Activity”. Now, they’re prompting users to reset passwords and enable two-factor identification, especially if they didn’t have it before....

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North Korea’s 2021 Cryptocurrency Thievery

B. Simmons January 17, 2022

See? It totally works! Per Chainalysis, North Korea had quite the year with cryptocurrency in 2021. Or at least, their hackers (which are practically synonymous with the state, natch) did; according to reports, they...

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Security Flaw That Enabled Unlimited Steam Wallet Funds Found And Dealt With

B. Simmons August 16, 2021

Hacker that found it made a cool $7500. Thanks to the work of a white hat hacker, Valve has identified and a eliminated a flaw in their payment system that would allow a bad...

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Hacker Returns Over Half Of The More Than $600 Million In Cryptocurrency They Stole From PolyNetwork

B. Simmons August 13, 2021

It’s not the sort of thing you typically see. August 10th saw hackers steal around $610 million in cryptocurrency from PolyNetwork, a service that enables transactions between blockchains. And oddly enough, after the news...

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EA Targeted By Hackers; Source Code For FIFA 21, Frostbite Engine Stolen

B. Simmons June 10, 2021

They got more than just those two things, too. Hackers have managed to force their way into EA’s servers and steal over 780GB of data. Notably, this includes the source code for FIFA 21,...

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Capcom Suffers Ransomware Attack Claiming 1TB Of Data; Hackers Want $11 Million In Cryptocurrency

B. Simmons November 7, 2020 1 Comment

That’s a lot of pizza. Earlier in the week, news got around that Capcom had their internal systems hacked. And now the other shoe has dropped; word has gotten out that they were hit...

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Nintendo Account Holders Should Secure Their Accounts, Says Nintendo

B. Simmons April 25, 2020

Otherwise, you might end up charged for hundreds of dollars in games you don’t want. It seems to be a constant thing nowadays; a major service provider getting hacked, and having a number of...

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Sony Still Taking Measures To Stop People From Hacking The PS Vita

B. Simmons August 27, 2019

They’re not supporting it again, though, so don’t get the wrong idea. Sony ended their support for the PS Vita earlier this year. Normally, that’d mean the device would become an open playground for...

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Arrest Made in Capital One Data Breach Case

B. Simmons July 29, 2019

Quick turnaround, I must say. Earlier today, Capital One announced that they suffered a massive data breach on July 19th, compromising the data of over 100 million customers across the US and Canada. According...

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Hackers Claim Infiltration Of 3 Major Antivirus Firms

B. Simmons May 14, 2019

I literally typed “scary hacker guy” into a Google image search. A group of Russian- and English-speaking hackers have infiltrated the top 3 US antivirus firms. They claim to have stolen “sensitive source code”...