CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — Marie Willis-Guarneri was recently elected Cuyahoga Falls Ward 7 Councilperson, so she should be celebrating. Instead, she’s battling Meta over losing several social media accounts on both Instagram and Facebook. Willis-Guarneri tried logging on to her Facebook accounts on Dec. 17, but couldn’t. She told me she then started being bombarded...Read More
PlayStation users were recently triggered into a mass panic after they were suddenly forced out of their accounts. Yesterday, thousands – perhaps millions – of gamers were suddenly signed out of the PlayStation Network accounts, and I was one of them. Instantly, it triggered a fear that an account may have been hacked. After all,...Read More
Was your Ring doorbell hacked on May 28? Future via Getty Images Update, July 20, 2025: This story, originally published on July 19, has been updated with information concerning hundreds of comments from Ring doorbell users who claim that unknown devices logged into their accounts on May 28, along with the responses from Ring itself....Read More
Pawtucket-based toymaker Hasbro disclosed in a government filing that its network was hacked. The company says the “unauthorized access” was discovered on Saturday, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission filing. “Upon discovery, the Company promptly activated its security incident response protocols, implemented containment measures, including proactively taking certain systems offline, and launched an investigation...Read More
A security researcher discovered a nasty flaw in Google’s Antigravity tool, the latest example of companies rushing out AI tools vulnerable to hacking. Within 24 hours of Google releasing its Gemini-powered AI coding tool Antigravity, security researcher Aaron Portnoy discovered what he deemed a severe vulnerability: a trick that allowed him to manipulate the AI’s...Read More
Fortinet customers are seeing attackers exploiting a patch bypass for a previously fixed critical FortiGate authentication vulnerability (CVE-2025-59718) to hack patched firewalls. One of the affected admins said that Fortinet has allegedly confirmed that the latest FortiOS version (7.4.10) didn’t fully address this authentication bypass vulnerability, which should’ve been patched in early December with the release...Read More
Let me tell you how I came within steps of becoming a victim in an elaborate social engineering scheme designed to exploit something so routine and apparently harmless as a Microsoft Teams call earlier today. For most of the interaction, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Someone who I thought was an industry contact reached...Read More
Cloud app hosting giant Vercel this weekend said hackers had breached its internal systems and accessed customer data. Hackers have claimed they have stolen sensitive customer credentials from Vercel’s systems and are selling the data online. In a statement on Sunday, Vercel said the breach originated from another software maker, Context AI. One of Vercel’s...Read More
One of Discord’s third-party customer service providers was compromised by an “unauthorized party,” the company says. The unauthorized party gained access to “information from a limited number of users who had contacted Discord through our Customer Support and/or Trust & Safety teams” and aimed to “extort a financial ransom from Discord.” The unauthorized party “did...Read More
China has hacked into American power grids and companies for decades, stealing sensitive files and intellectual property such as chip designs as it seeks to gain an edge over the United States. But a sweeping cyberattack by a group known as Salt Typhoon is China’s most ambitious yet, experts and officials have concluded after a...Read More
