Tag: HACKED

20 DEC

Superhero Bits: Krypton Premiere Date, Justice League Petition Hacked & More

What’s the estimated final global box office take for Justice League? Which superhero movie has advanced in the Oscar race for Best Hairstyling & Make-Up? When will Krypton debut on SyFy? Which comic creator did Matthew Vaughn speak to about possibly collaborating on Man of Steel 2? Which comic book movie is IMDb’s most anticipated […]

16 DEC

Russian oil pipeline company says its computers were hacked to mine cryptocurrency

Published time: 16 Dec, 2017 11:59 Officials at Transneft told Reuters on Friday its computers had been used for the unauthorized mining of the cryptocurrency monero. Monero is the eleventh-largest virtual currency with a market cap of over $ 5 billion. “Incidents where the company’s hardware was used to manufacture cryptocurrency have been found. It […]

16 DEC

A bombshell letter charges that Uber hacked into competitors’ networks and wiretapped people at a hotel

David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images A letter has been made public that alleges Uber “fraudulently impersonates riders and drivers on competitor platforms, hacks into competitor networks, and conducts unlawful wiretapping.” The letter was written by a lawyer for a former Uber employee, who claims he was “unlawfully demoted” and later fired by the company. […]

12 DEC

Jailed Russian hacker: I hacked Democrats ‘under the command’ of Russian intelligence agents

Thomson Reuters A Russian hacker told a Moscow court in August that he was ordered to hack the Democratic National Committee by Russian intelligence agents at the FSB. The hacker was arrested in mid-2016 on charges relating to his work with a notorious hacking collective. Kozlovsky’s work with the FSB could undermine the Kremlin’s repeated […]

07 DEC

Uber paid off a 20-year-old Florida man to destroy hacked data

More details are coming to light about Uber’s huge data breach. Reuters is reporting that a 20-year-old Florida man was behind the 2016 extortion-oriented cyberattack and was paid through the firm’s bug bounty program. We know that the individual, whose identity Uber refuses to disclose, received $ 100,000 for destroying the info, which exposed the […]

07 DEC

Revealed: Uber was hacked by a 20-year-old ‘LIVING WITH HIS MUM in a small home'

GETTY The Florida-based man is being pegged as the hacker responsible for the company’s 2016 data breach The Florida-based man is being pegged as the hacker responsible for the company’s data breach last year that resulted in a compromise for 57million passengers and 600 drivers. Three sources close to the events disclosed the information with […]

25 NOV

If you’re worried about being hacked online, it might be time to ditch Google Chrome

If you’re concerned about data breaches online, you might want to try the latest version of FireFox. Mozilla recently launched its all-new Firefox Quantum web browser, the firm’s biggest launch since Firefox 1.0 debuted back in 2004. The new browser boasts some impressive speeds – over twice as fast as Firefox from 6 months ago, […]