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A new report confirms that cryptocurrency-based crimes posed “one of the biggest threats to cryptocurrency’s continued adoption.” Blockchain analysis firm Chainanalysis has revealed startling details about the devastation cybercriminals managed to cause during 2021. According to a preview of its “2022 Crypto Crime Report” due to be released in February 2022, cryptocurrency-oriented scammers and cyber […]
According to Grim Finance, it was an “advanced attack” in which hackers exploited a flaw in the vault contract. Grim Finance, a DeFi protocol, and Smart Yield Optimizer Platform has announced that the platform was hacked Saturday 18th in an “advanced attack” that allowed hackers to steal over $30 million worth of Fantom Tokens. In […]
Kronos has taken down its private cloud services and advises customers to use “alternative business continuity protocols” while the company is working on mitigating the attack. Kronos Private Cloud is an HR management firm, also known as Ultimate Kronos Group, offering timekeeping services to many high-profile firms globally. Reportedly, the company is the latest victim […]
BitMart Exchange has confirmed that the security breach involves one of its ETH hot wallets and one of BSC hot wallets. BitMart Exchange, a cryptocurrency trading platform has suffered a “large-scale” security breach in which hackers have stolen funds worth $150 million, the company said today on Twitter. With this breach, BitMart has added its […]
The U.S. is on track to break the single-year data breach record in 2021, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). That’s not even the whole story. For every high-profile data breach you hear about in the news, dozens of lower-profile attacks occur. These smaller breaches might not compromise millions of records at a […]
DNA Diagnostics Center (DDC) has revealed that hackers managed to access highly sensitive and personal data of users including payment card data. The Fairfield, Ohio-based DNA testing service DNA Diagnostics Center (DDC) has disclosed a data breach in which sensitive personal and financial data of more than 2.1 million (2,102,436) customers/users has been stolen by […]
GoDaddy detected unauthorized access to its systems where it hosts and manages its customers’ WordPress servers. The Scottsdale, Arizona-based web registrar and hosting firm GoDaddy has disclosed that it suffered a data breach in which the personal details plus login of up to 1.2 million active and inactive customers were accessed by an “unauthorized third […]
Reportedly, the database also contains personal information of Argentinian President Alberto Fernández, football superstars Sergio Aguero and Lionel Messi. After the infamous La Gorra Leaks in 2017 and the exposure of Argentinian politicians and law enforcement officials in 2019, Argentine is back in the news for all the wrong reasons. This time, hackers have reportedly […]
At the time of publishing this article, the data was still exposed and growing as there has been no response from Hariexpress. The Brazilian E-commerce Marketplace Integrator platform Hariexpress (Hariexpress.com.br) has been caught exposing a massive trove of sensitive data belonging to its customers and vendors. In total, the company has exposed more than 610 […]
The latest EPIK data leak, according to Anonymous hackers involves bootable disk images, API tokens, over 500,000 private keys, etc. – All in plain-text format. Hacktivist group Anonymous has published the second part of data stolen from controversial pro-right-wing web hosting platform Epik. As previously reported by Hackread.com, the previous leak comprised 180GB of the […]
State-backed hackers have been constantly exploiting vulnerabilities in VPNs to breach critical cyberinfrastructure in the United States, agencies have warned. The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have published guidelines to secure virtual private networks (VPNs). The guidelines came after the departments noticed a rise […]
Coinbase is working to reimburse the customers for the funds they have lost and help them regain control of their accounts. Coinbase Global Inc. has sent a breach notification letter to its customers affected by the cyberattack on the widely used cryptocurrency exchange. As per the letter, hackers managed to steal accounts of at least […]
Email accounts linked with Virginia National Guard were targeted in the cyberattack. According to details shared by the representative of the chief of public affairs for the Virginia National Guard, A. A. Puryear, in July, email accounts linked to the Virginia Department of Military Affairs, and the Virginia Defense Force, were affected by a cyberattack. […]
Anonymous claims that the data contains information about the company’s domains and clients. The alleged hacking of Epik may result in the leaking of backend information of the company’s clients to the public. Last week Anonymous hacktivist collective hacked the official website of the GOP (Texas Republican Party) leaving the party asking for donations to […]
The Lockbit ransomware gang also claimed to have ”extra 200 GB” worth of Bangkok Airways data. On Thursday, Bangkok Airlines confirmed that the notorious LockBit ransomware gang ‘LockBit 2.0’ has stolen around 103 GB of data from the company and is now threatening to leak it online. Hackread.com can now confirm that the ransomware gang […]
The incident took place after the Elasticsearch server used by eHAC developers exposed the data due to misconfiguration. According to Indonesian health ministry official Anas Ma’ruf, the country’s COVID-19 test and trace application had an inherent security flaw due to which the personal information and health status of around 1.3 million individuals got exposed. Ma’ruf, […]
The hacker claims to have hacked T-Mobile’s production, development, and staging servers around two weeks back, including its Oracle database server. T-Mobile is currently investigating claims of unidentified hackers that they have stolen the personal data of 100 million of its customers. Some of the data is up for sale at a widely used hacker […]
The watchlist was exposed on a misconfigured server hosted on a Bahrain IP address instead of a US one. The FBI was reportedly maintaining a secret watchlist of suspected terrorist administrated by the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC). According to Comparitech’s head of security research, Bob Diachenko, this list was exposed online due to a configuration […]
The misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket belonged to Reindeer, a now-defunct marketing company based in the United States. Threat analysis from the WizCase security team led by Ata Hakçıl revealed a data leak impacting the now-defunct American marketing firm Reindeer. WizCase’s team of researchers identified that the data leak exposed sensitive personal data of the company, […]
Most of the email addresses checked by researchers contained .gov suffixes or indicated that the user worked for New York Police Department. In April 2021, a hacker dumped household data of 250 million Americans online, and now VPNMentor’s team of cybersecurity researchers led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar discovered a misconfigured Cloud database stored on […]
In total, CPA exposed 502 GB worth of data without any security authentication. Anurag Sen, a security researcher identified a data leak in which a server belonging to the Calgary Parking Authority (CPA) was found exposing the private information of thousands of drivers across Calgary, including some user passwords. SEE: Database with millions of Instagram […]