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In July this year, the online payment giant PayPal announced buying Canadian bill payment management company TIO Networks for $233 million (€196m) in cash. But now the company has revealed that TIO Networks have suffered a massive data breach in which personal information of 1.6 million customers has been stolen. In an official statement, PayPal said that a […]
In 2014, Yahoo announced that it had suffered a massive data breach in which 500 million user accounts containing emails and passwords were stolen. The company only got to know about the breach in September 2016, and labeled it as work of a ‘state-sponsored actor.’ On Tuesday 28th, Karim Baratov, a Canadian citizen, appeared in a San Francisco federal court […]
Forever 21 is investigating a potential data breach which may have compromised customer information and payment cards. On Tuesday, the US clothing retailer said that the company recently received a tip from a third-party that there “may have been unauthorized access to data from payment cards” at a number of Forever 21 outlets. Forever 21 […]
In June 2016 we reported that the well-known Toronto, Canada-based Internet Media firm VerticalScope became a victim of a huge data breach, but the firm chose to keep this information secret from users instead of asking them to change their passwords. The breach was identified by now closed Leaked Source platform, and that’s how the […]
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s main signals intelligence agency, has made a malware scanning and analytics tool called AssemblyLine as open-source by releasing the code. AssemblyLine tool can analyze massive volumes of files and also rebalance workload automatically. During the scanning process, every file is given a unique identifier, and user-defined analytics engines scan […]
A couple of weeks ago on August 23rd in Edmonton, Alberta; Canada based MacEwan University revealed that their staff fell for a phishing scam resulting in a wire transfer of whopping $11.4 million. According to the official statement on August 31st, 2017, unknown hackers sent “a series of fraudulent emails and convinced staff to change the electronic banking information for one […]
AlphaBay, one of the largest Dark Web markets for drugs, weapons and other illegal products that mysteriously darkened at the beginning of this month without any explanation from its directors. AlphaBay Shut Down After Police Raid it was closed by international authorities. On July 4, the dark web market suddenly dropped without any explanation of […]
The authorities in Calgary, Alberta have arrested a 42-year-old who took photos of random women without their consent. He would then post those pictures on his Twitter account that had over 17,000 followers. The account was named ‘Canada Creep,’ and it existed for over a year. The man operating it, Jeffrey Robert Williamson of Calgary, […]
The FireEye cyber security firm has discovered that a number of Canadian mines and casinos were hacked by a group named FIN10 whose location has not yet been identified – FireEye labels FIN10 to be “one of the most disruptive threat actors observed in the region.” Sensitive data and information were stolen: As part of the campaign, […]
A new interactive online tool named Internet Exchange Mapping (IXmaps) appeared earlier this week, and it shows if your data traffic passes through the NSA or not. Many prying eyes are out there, trying to discover everybody’s secrets and take a peek into everyone’s life. [squaread][/squaread] That’s why a team of faculty and students from […]
The U.S. Department of Justice is gearing up to issue indictment orders against four hackers involved in cyber attacks against Yahoo which affected hundreds of millions of users worldwide, reports Bloomberg. The department is charging four people for their role in the data breach against Yahoo which almost derailed its deal with Verizon. In an unconfirmed report, TechCrunch reports that these […]
Nigerian news website Politics Nigeria has reported that two Indian sisters hailing from Toronto, Canada have been detained in Lagos, Nigeria, for their alleged involvement in cyber-bullying and extortion of a Nigerian billionaire along with 274 others. The sisters Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo have quite a heavy following on Instagram; when combined the cumulative total […]
Carleton University (Canada, Ottawa, Ontario) students must keep their computers and Wi-Fi routers off because some of the computers at the university are infected with ransomware. The malware uses encryption to lock the files on the system and ask for ransom. On Tuesday morning, the IT department of the university issued a notification to staff […]
The users were shocked to see information about Chinese government officials and their activities on the recruitment site. It is although hard to believe but it true that an important official website of the Canadian government was attacked and hackers didn’t leave any trace about their whereabouts. If you remember, last year Canadian government’s various websites […]
Casino Rama is an Ontario, Canada-based casino, hotel and entertainment complex which is in the news for all the bad reasons these days. According to reports the casino has suffered a massive data breach in which personal data of its customers and staff has been stolen. Also Read: Gambler Hacks Surveillance System To Win $33.2 Mil […]
Stop Trusting SMS Messaging and Stop Sending It- Warns Ontario Court Ruling An Ontario-based Court of Appeals has given out an interesting new ruling, which might be of great interest for regular SMS senders and receivers. According to the startling details of this ruling, SMS messages are not private at all and as soon as these […]
The company has confirmed the breach and also revealed that there was an extortion attempt as well. Goldcorp, a renowned gold-mining firm in Canada has been “badly hacked.” The gold-mining firm’s headquarters is based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Hackers have also leaked a massive amount of the company’s employees’ data online. The hackers provided sample data […]
The U.S and Canadian banks are threatened by a double jeopardy, double the trouble as the twice powerful malware mega menace called goznym is here! This brand new trouble for the United States and Canadian banking system is a fusion malware with enormously violent skills. Banking Giants Nymaim and Gozi ISFB have joined forces to […]
Who knew Canadian PM Justin Trudeau knows everything about quantum computing? During a visit to the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo on Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded to a reporter’s sarcastic comment about his knowledge of quantum computing by giving the reporter a quick lesson on it. “I was going to ask you […]
Anonymous conducted DDoS attack on Dalhousie University website against 2015 rape case — Anonymous demands punishment for the culprits In November 2015, HackRead reported about the hacktivist group Anonymous forcing Halifax Regional Municipality police into reopening the investigation of a sexual assault case involving an 18-year-old girl Jane Doe attacked by a fellow student on Halloween night […]
Pro-rape and controversy child Roosh blames Hacktivists for hacking his family’s address and spreading hoax news The controversial ‘neo-masculinist” Roosh has claimed to have become the victim of online hacktivism as he was targeted by an Anonymous-linked hacker group. It was announced on Thursday that Roosh V, real name Daryush Valizadeh has called off Public […]