Maddje got the kind of email that makes your stomach drop: someone had logged into her account from a different device. Classic hack warning. She braced herself for the worst and went to check what damage had been done. What she found instead was that all of her AP Physics homework for the next few...Read More

Meta says roughly 20,000 Instagram accounts may have been hacked in a recent attack abusing an AI-powered account recovery support tool. Hackers compromised many Instagram accounts simply by asking Meta’s chatbot to link their own email address to the targeted account. This enabled the hackers to reset the account password and take control of it. ...Read More

Hackers stole data from thousands of GitHub repositories, the code-hosting giant said on Tuesday. “While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely monitoring our infrastructure for follow-on activity,” the company said in a post on...Read More

PUBLISHED June 07, 2026 Walk through any airport, café, university corridor, office lobby, or even a half-decent restaurant and you’ll notice something immediately: nobody looks dressed up anymore. You see sweatpants paired with oversized hoodies. You see sneakers everywhere—clean white, retro, chunky, performance and worn-in or designer-distressed ones (these are designed to look worn-in like...Read More

Finding out your child’s phone has been hacked is a stressful experience. Phones store so much of their personal life—photos, messages, social media, and even financial information. The thought of someone accessing or misusing this is understandably unsettling. If it happens to you, you can take steps to secure their device, protect their privacy, and...Read More

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — If your Facebook page gets hacked, getting it back can be a struggle. Kim Moser is learning that the hard way. It started a few weeks ago after getting an alert from Facebook about changes to her account. She says, “The hackers changed the email address when they got into the...Read More

Grafana Labs, the maker of its eponymous popular open source web visualization software, confirmed it had been hacked but that it refused to pay the hackers who had threatened to release the company’s codebase. In a series of posts on social media, the lab said its investigation found that the hackers had abused a stolen...Read More

PORTAGE, Mich. (WWMT) — Stryker, one of the largest medical equipment manufacturers in the United States, confirmed Wednesday that a cyberattack disrupted its global computer networks, with a logo linked to an Iranian-backed hacking group appearing on company login screens for employees who were unable to work. The Portage-based, global company has said in a...Read More

GitHub, the popular developer platform owned by Microsoft, confirmed it was hacked and attackers had stolen data from around 3,800 internal code repositories. The code hosting and sharing giant said in a series of posts on X that it has “no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories,” but noted...Read More

Instagram has resolved a security issue that allowed several users’ accounts to get hacked. The attack appeared to rely on tricking Meta’s own AI-powered support chatbot into granting access to a victim’s account. Over the weekend, several users on Reddit claimed that their Instagram accounts had been compromised, and a number of users on X...Read More