July 15, 2024 at 10:06AM AT&T suffered a data breach resulting in the theft of customer call and text records. The company paid a $370,000 ransom to a hacker, later identified as John Binns, living in Turkey, for deleting the data. While the breach did not expose personal information, it potentially put customers at risk. … Read more
June 25, 2024 at 05:01AM Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus recently experienced a data breach compromising millions of customers’ personal information. The breach, detected in May 2024, exposed data such as names, contact details, and birthdates, affecting over 64,000 individuals. A hacker, ‘Sp1d3r’, offered to sell a database containing information from 180 million users, triggering concerns … Read more
May 9, 2024 at 04:00AM Zscaler initiated an investigation after a hacker, IntelBroker, claimed to have access to its systems and offered to sell confidential data for $20,000. Zscaler found no evidence of a compromise in its customer and production environments. The company confirmed that its environments were not impacted, but a test environment was … Read more
March 20, 2024 at 12:15PM Robert Purbeck, also known as Lifelock and Studmaster, has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and abuse charges in a hacking case. He admitted to targeting more than a dozen entities, stealing data and attempting extortion. He will be sentenced on June 18 and has agreed to pay over $1 million … Read more
March 17, 2024 at 07:24PM AT&T denied that the leaked data impacting 71 million people originated from its systems, following a hacker’s attempt to sell the data. Another hacker later leaked the data for free, containing personal information like names, addresses, and encrypted social security numbers. The source of the data remains a mystery, posing … Read more
November 25, 2023 at 05:08PM General Electric is investigating a cyberattack where a threat actor breached the company’s development environment and leaked allegedly stolen data. The hacker, known as IntelBroker, attempted to sell access to GE’s development and software pipelines on a hacking forum. They then posted that they are now selling both the network … Read more
November 10, 2023 at 01:53PM Poloniex founder Justin Sun has offered a reward of up to $6.5 million to the hackers who drained $120 million from the cryptocurrency exchange. Sun has given the hackers seven days to return the stolen funds before he engages law enforcement. The attack on Poloniex is the latest in a … Read more