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It’s been a rough spell for hackers, one was just extradited from Mexico to face charges in California for a DDoS attack on the city of Santa Cruz. Now six members of a group responsible for the Clop ransomware were picked up in a raid in the Ukraine. It is not clear if these were all the members behind it
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it seized 63.7 bitcoins currently valued at approximately $2.3 million. According to the Department of Justice, “these funds allegedly represent the proceeds of a May 8, ransom payment to individuals in a group known as DarkSide.” This is the group that targeted the Colonial Pipeline, causing it to shutdown. As alleged in the
As many as 29,000 users of Passwordstate password manager downloaded a malicious update that extracted data from the app and sent it to an attacker-controlled server, Click Studios told customers. Ars Technica reported that this was a supply-chain attack. Click Studios began developing Passwordstate in March of 2004, and released it in August that same year. According to Click Studios,
Those who looked at Twitter earlier today may have noticed some very unusual tweets from accounts that have a blue checkmark. TechCrunch reported that these high-profile accounts were simultaneously hacked and used to spread a cryptocurrency scam. According to TechCrunch, the hackers started by targeting cryptocurrency focused accounts like @bitcoin, @ripple, @coindesk, @coinbase, and @binance. It is possible that those
As you may remember, Marriott International confirmed in November of 2018 that its hotel guest database of about 500 million customers was stolen in a data breach. The breach was related to reservations Marriott's Starwood Properties. Since then, some new information about the data breach has been revealed. The New York Times reported today that Marriott International conceded that its
Quora is a website where people go to get an answer to whatever random question is on their minds. Now, it appears that Quora users are going to be seeking some incredibly significant answers from the website. Quora has had a data breach that affected about 100 million users. Quora acknowledged this data breach on The Quora Blog. The data
Marriott confirmed that its hotel guest database of about 500 million customers was stolen in a data breach. Those who have concerns that their data may have been stolen may want to read the announcement that Marriott posted on their website. It includes a list of things Marriott is doing in response to the data breach. Marriott says that on