Image: Xbox / Pure Xbox / Pexels Earlier this week, we covered a story about someone in Brazil who had taken Microsoft to court over a hacked Xbox account in which they’d lost access to all their games and been told that they were essentially unrecoverable. That situation was fortunately resolved in the end, but...Read More

A Microsoft user has lost all of his digital belongings after his account was deleted by the tech giant. A viral post from a gamer known as Joshua Khane has been making the rounds on social media after he put Microsoft on blast. The user noted that his account had been compromised, and after reaching...Read More

A decade after climate activists’ emails were breached, a court case is shedding new light on who allegedly orchestrated the hacking. This story is published in partnership with the Guardian.​ On a cold January morning in 2016, Kert Davies joined a group of climate advocates and lawyers at the Rockefeller Family Fund’s office in Upper...Read More

You’re waiting for a package. Your phone buzzes with a text saying there’s a delivery problem and you need to confirm your address. It looks legitimate, uses the right logo, and you are expecting something. You quickly reply before realizing you should have double-checked. Now you’re wondering if you made a huge mistake. You’re not...Read More

On Saturday, U.S. and Israeli jets began a bombing campaign against Iran, killing its supreme leader Ali Khamenei and several senior government officials. The attacks also hit military and civilian targets all across the country, including a girls’ school, where at least 168 children and adults were killed.  After a few days of conflict, multiple...Read More

There might be a few grumbl’s at Crumbl. At least, that’s if recent events are anything to go by. A few weeks back, the bakery chain took a break from developing its extensive dessert menu and releasing special-edition weekly cookies to announce a possible menu shake-up, and said announcement was swiftly followed by an employee...Read More

Regular internet users and corporations are not the only victims of malicious hackers. Sometimes, the hackers themselves get hacked. That is what happened in an unusual hacking campaign, where an unknown group of hackers targeted systems already compromised by a prolific cybercrime group known as TeamPCP. Once the hackers broke into those systems, they immediately...Read More

Young woman uses smartphone while sitting in kitchen eating breakfast. It’s important to be wary when on social media; hackers may use these platforms to try to get personal information. getty Someone has got hold of your login and password and taken over your Facebook account. Messages that you haven’t sent may be going out...Read More

Somewhere between coordinating major event security and sharing real-time threat intelligence across hundreds of government partners, the Department of Homeland Security’s own information-sharing backbone got compromised. The intrusion into the Homeland Security Information Network — HSIN — reportedly occurred between late May and early June 2026, first reported by Nextgov and later confirmed by DHS....Read More

The Department of Homeland Security is investigating a breach of its platform, which federal, state, and local governments and law enforcement use to share intelligence, with one senior lawmaker warning that the information spill could risk national security. News sites Nextgov, which first broke news of the incident, and Bleeping Computer report that DHS officials...Read More