Nearly a year after his YouTube channel was hacked by crypto scammers, Steve still thinks about the ordeal every day. “I’m scared to leave my browser open,” he says. Steve, along with his wife, Danielle (who are withholding their last name for privacy reasons), launched Vegas Action in 2020, chronicling their wins and losses playing...Read More
In this photo illustration, the Tea app logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. The dating advice app suffered a major data leak last month. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The Tea app describes itself as “the safest place to spill tea” about potential online...Read More
Topline Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines—the flagship carriers of France and the Netherlands—were the latest in a string of global carriers to be hacked since mid-June. Five global airlines—WestJet in Canada, Hawaiian Airlines in the US, Qantas in Australia, Air France in France and KLM in the Netherlands—have been hacked in the past...Read More
It usually starts with a small, uneasy moment. A login alert you don’t remember triggering. A password that suddenly doesn’t work. A friend asking why you just posted something… bizarre. Sometimes it’s even worse: you open your Facebook Page and realize you’re no longer an admin. Facebook account takeovers often don’t look dramatic at first. They start quietly: a new device login, a recovery email...Read More
The first time Perth man Casey Grogan, who runs a media and videography business from home, knew that he had a major issue with internet security was when a client contacted him about a strange email he’d received. “I had a client who was in America at the time just hit me up on WhatsApp...Read More
A recent hack of Columbia University’s computer system compromised the personal information of hundreds of thousands of people, including students and applicants, new documents show. Over all, about 870,000 individuals were affected by the breach. The university provided draft notices to officials in Maine and California that it intends to send to affected parties in...Read More
ITV’s brilliant new drama The Hack is set to revisit the controversial phone-hacking scandal, which resulted in a popular newspaper being shuttered and many key players facing jail-time. David Tennant will play Nick Davies, the journalist who tirelessly worked to uncover the scandal, in which several journalists from the News of the World tabloid paper...Read More
Workday, a company that provides human resources technology to over 11,000 corporations and 70 million users worldwide, announced in a classic Friday news dump that it suffered a data breach. The company did not disclose how much information was stolen by the hackers, but did reveal that information—including the names, email addresses, and phone numbers—of...Read More
A scam is currently circulating on WhatsApp that could be very dangerous for you. Users are receiving seemingly harmless messages—usually from unknown numbers without unique names—and those messages contain nothing more than a photo along with a question along the lines of “Is that you?” or “Do you know this person?” It’s a clear attempt...Read More
Three private Chinese companies helped China carry out one of the boldest hacking operations to date, including snooping on text messages from Kamala Harris’ and Donald Trump’s campaigns, according to a coalition of U.S. agencies and 12 allied governments. The operation, known as Salt Typhoon, hacked into telecommunication companies around the world, including AT&T and...Read More
