- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 26th, 2016
IRS Retires e-Filing PIN System After More Cyber-Attacks
IRS previously relaunched Get Transcript application
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 24th, 2016
NASCAR Team Pays Ransomware Fee to Recover Files Worth $2 Million
Team almost missed a NASCAR race because of the infection
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 22nd, 2016
Carbonite Online Backup Service Resets All Users Passwords After Cyber-Attack
One day after GoToMyPC, Carbonite suffers the same fate
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 19th, 2016
GoToMyPC Remote Desktop Service Under Attack, Resets User Passwords
Incident seems to be another ATO (account takeover) attack
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 17th, 2016
DAO Ether Trading Platform to Shut Down Following Ongoing Cyber-Heist
DAO creator says platform is shutting down
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 16th, 2016
GitHub Resets Some User Passwords After Brute-Force Attack
Some GitHub users were victims of password reuse
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 15th, 2016
US Air Force Loses 100,000 Investigation Records Because of Database Error
Lockheed Martin could not recover the data, officials are now looking into bringing in specialized DB recovery firms
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 15th, 2016
Former IBM Engineer Charged with Stealing Source Code and Selling It to China
Xu stole IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS)
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 5th, 2016
DDoS Attack on BitGo Bitcoin Wallet Sends Shock Waves Through the Industry
Service resumes operations after a few hours
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 1st, 2016
TeamViewer Denies Breach As Users Complain on Reddit About Getting Hacked UPDATED
Company denies having any security breach
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 29th, 2016
FBI Raids Home of Researcher Who Alerted Company of Publicly Exposed Data
FBI brings guns to the house of a security researcher with three kids, all because of a publicly available FTP server
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 26th, 2016
Company Fires CEO After Falling Victim to $56-Million Online Scam
Company manages to recuperate around 20% of the stolen money
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 26th, 2016
DNS Provider Under Massive DDoS Attack Lasting for More than a Week
DNS provider for Imgur, Yelp, MaxCDN is under attack
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 24th, 2016
UK Teenager Charged with DDoS Attack on Mumsnet Network
Police suspect Paul Buchanan as being the Mumsnet hacker
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 23rd, 2016
Coordinated Heist Steals $12.7 Million from ATMs in Japan
All credit card details belong to South African citizens
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 6th, 2016
Swiss Defense Ministry Hit by Cyber-Attack
Russian hackers suspected, no official accusations yet
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 29th, 2016
NFL Player Gets Hacked on Live TV
NFL prospect gets hacked during the NFL 2016 Draft show