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Chinese Bitcoin exchange Bter hacked, $1.75 million in Bitcoin stolen

While you were celebrating valentines day, the hackers were busy doing what they are good at. Yes, on 14th Feb, 2015, a China-based Bitcoin exchange Bter (bter.com) came under massive breach in which $1.75 million worth of Bitcoin was stolen.  Though the company is not revealing much information about the breach other than accepting that hackers […]

Hackers Steal $100 millions+ from US and global banks via Malware

In an isolated incident in late 2013, an ATM at Kiev started dispensing cash randomly without any human interaction; much to the surprise and pleasure of customers present there swiftly collected the cash. An investigation by Kaspersky Lab, a Russian cybersecurity firm, confirmed that it was not the bank’s problem; rather the bank’s internal computers […]

Raptr site Hacked – Users advised to Immediately Change their Passwords

One of the most popular online gaming profile trackers Raptr has been hacked and its users are pressed to change their user account passwords at the earliest opportunity. An interesting fact about this attack is that the label is similar to those recently carried out against other popular online gaming platforms Xbox Live and PlayStation […]

Taylor Swift’s Twitter, Instagram Hacked! Hackers threatened to leak nude photos

Someone hacked official Twitter, Instagram accounts of Singer Taylor Swift few hours ago. It is still unclear who was behind the hack but tweeting to over 51 million fans, the hacker said they should follow @Lizzard the “leader” of Lizard Squad (Same group who was behind Sony Hack). After taking over her account, hackers claimed they have […]

Russian Dating Site TopFace Hacked, 20 Million Login Emails Stolen

Topface Faces Hackers’ Wrath – Reportedly about 20million usernames of the popular Russian Dating Site hacked. Approximately 20million user IDs and email addresses of visitors on Topface, a Russian online dating website, got hacked and are being offered for sale on another website. The apparent hack attack was detected by the renowned fraud-detection-software-maker company Easy Solutions […]

Hackers take free rides after hacking American, United airlines accounts

Countless American and United airlines’ User Accounts Stolen by Hackers – Dozens of free trips booked as hackers retrieve user ids and passwords via third party source. How would you feel if someone hacks into your personal user account and books a ticket using your money or steals your earned mileage? Of course you would sue […]

Several Electronic Arts Origin accounts may have been hacked

The gamers at Electronic Arts are finding purchases they didn’t make on their accounts. This news comes in right after the Lizard Squad hackers attacked and brought to a stop the PSN and Xbox live services while the H4lt squad leaked the Xbox One SDK online, allowing the development of Homebrew Apps to be run on […]

Bitstamp Exchange Hacked; Website Offline, Bitcoin Worth $5M Stolen

A bad news for Bitcoin fans and supporters. Some unknown hackers have target one of the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp.net and, as a result, $5M worth of bitcoin have been stolen. The United Kingdom and Slovenia-based Bitstamp exchange has taken their website offline in order to secure the remaining Bitcoin and making sure the hackers can not access […]

UPDATE: 13k PSN, Xbox leak by Anonymous is copy paste from previous leaks?

Yesterday, aTwitter account associated with the online hacktivists Anonymous claimed to leak a list of what it said were usernames and passwords of 13,000 accounts from VPNCyberGhost, UbiSoft, VCC, Brazzers, UFC TV, PSN, Xbox Live Gamers, Twitch TV, Amazon, Hulu Plus, Dell, Walmart and (EA) Games. We promised an in-depth analysis of the leaked data and […]

Anonymous claims leaking Passwords, credit cards details of PlayStaion, Xbox users

One of the Twitter account associated with the online hacktivists Anonymous has claimed to leak a list of what it says are usernames and passwords for 13,000 accounts from VPNCyberGhost, UbiSoft, VCC, Brazzers, UFC TV, PSN, Xbox Live Gamers, Twitch TV, Amazon, Hulu Plus, Dell, Walmart and (EA) Games. @AnonymousGlobo twitter handle announced the leak […]

Iran hacked Vegas Casino wiping hard drives, shutting down email

On the morning of February 10, 2014, the Las Vegas Sands casino, something was not right. Computers were flat-lining, telephone lines stopped working, emails were down, and several IT systems came to a halt and it wasn’t even time for the gamblers to be up yet. The $14 billion casino operation came to a standstill […]

RedHack’ Writing off Debt was in retaliation over destruction of 6k olive trees.

Last week, RedHack, the world’s first and oldest hacktivist hacker group dating to 1997, had claimed to compromise data of the Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation (TEİAŞ) in a move against the cutting of 6,000 olive trees in the Aegean town of Yırca, Turkey to construct a power plant. After breaching the company website, the hacker group […]

Hackers breach Yahoo! servers through Bash Bug

Romanian hackers used Bash Bug flaw to hackYahoo servers, according to a recent security news update. Jonathan Hall, President of the IT consulting firm, Future South Technologies and a security researcher, has affirmed that a group of Romanian hackers used the Shellshock vulnerability to compromise Yahoo servers, which was also confirmed by Yahoo! Hall said […]

The Major Cyber Events You Might Have Missed

The most happening events in cyber world that makes every web savvy thrilled and compel to think ahead of cyber crime are compiled here. The stories that you might missed can be again revealed with sincere efforts. So let us look over them! Microsoft planned to block Adware from July 2014 Adware that comes in […]

Iranian Hacker Hacks Israeli Job Portal, Leaks 3349 Login Accounts of Israeli Users

An Iranian hacker going with the handle of Dr.3v1l from Black_Devils B0ys hacking group has breached to an Israeli based job search portal, as a result login account information of over 3349 Israeli citizens have been leaked and dumped online. Dr.3v1l contacted me on Twitter regarding his latest hack with a Pastebin link that shows login accounts of […]

University of Neoliberal Arts & REDNET Institute Brasil Hacked, Accounts Leaked by NullCrew

The hackers from NullCrew are back in news with their latest attack, this time the crew has attacked the official website of University of Neoliberal Arts (www.philophysics.com) and a Brazilian based technology institute REDNET (www.redenet.edu.br). The hack was announced by the hackers on their official Twitter account which shows 146 accounts from University of Neoliberal Arts and around […]