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1.3 Million Indian Credit/Debit Cards Up For Sale On Dark Web

As part of one of the biggest card data dumps, around 1.3 million Indian bank cards have been put up for sale on a dark website called the Joker’s Stash. Joker’s Stash is one of the oldest card shops to buy and sell payment cards. Bank Cards Up For Sale! The card dump was discovered […]

OnePlus confirms hack exposed credit cards of phone buyers

The company put a hold on payments through its site after fraud reports emerged. OnePlus has confirmed that its systems have been breached, following reports of credit card fraud from customers who bought a phone from the company. The phone maker sent an email to customers Friday, saying customers’ credit card numbers, expiry dates, and security […]

Jackpot: New hacking group steals 150,000 credit cards from casino

Flat, firewall-free network was a walk in the park, boffins say. Cyber Defence Summit An un-named Casino with next-to-no security has lost 150,000 credit cards after being raided by a new hacking group. Researchers Emmanuel Jean-Georges and Barry Vengerik of Mandiant and FireEye say the “Fin5” hacking group had last year skipped through the organisation’s […]

Donald Trump Hotels Data Breach Incident Confirmed

In a previous article, we brought you news of Trump Hotels being breached by hackers.  To update,  we can now report that Trump Hotels have accepted and confirmed a breach did take place. During May 2014- June 2015, 7 of the hotels in the Trump Hotels group (owned by US Presidential candidate Donald Trump) suffered […]

Homeland Security Credit Cards Used to Buy Starbucks Coffee worth $30,000

Starbucks coffee may be delicious for many but delicious enough to waste thousands of dollars in taxpayer money?  The Inspector generals office of the Department of Homeland security said in its audit report that someone either hacked or stole the department’s credit cards and used them to purchase coffee from Starbucks. [must url=”https://www.hackread.com/starbucks-mobile-app-hacked-data-stolen/”]Researcher claims Starbucks mobile […]

New Amazon Phishing Scam Steals Credit Card Details

An email is being sent to users having the subject line ‘New Security feature’ and its sender appears to be Amazon. In this email, the company informs the recipient that a new security feature has been added and therefore, the user has to click on the provided link to update account information. The email also […]

MasterCard Plans to Use Selfies to Authenticate Online Transactions

Protecting customers from fake online transactions has always been a challenging task for the company’s security division, which has forced a popular credit card company to adopt some innovative ways to verify online purchases and to cut down fraud. MasterCard, one of the most popular financial company, while experimenting with the biometric technology, has developed […]

Donald Trump Hotels Face Major Credit Card Breach as Hackers Target the Empire

The meltdown of Donald Trump’s empire is slowly but continuously gaining momentum and the latest to add more misery to the real estate mogul’s already swelled up problems is the hack attack. Reportedly, the Trump chain of hotels has become the victim of latest hack attack by cybercriminals and a major credit card breach has […]

OpIsrael: Pro-Palestine hackers stole Israeli credit cards to fund charities

AnonGhost hacktivist group’s leader and founder, Mauritania Attacker, revealed on Tuesday that his team has funded Palestinian charities through stolen Israeli credit cards during OpIsrael. AnonGhost, the hacktivist group, acquired access to credit card credentials of Israelis by hacking into dozens of websites from Israel. According to Mauritania, until now the group has managed to churn […]