A recent data theft at PayPal caused a huge stir when a hacker was found wanting to sell access data to around 15.8 million accounts online—including user passwords in plain text. This type of data breach can be a nightmare for affected users. This is because criminals can not only steal funds via a compromised...Read More
PORTAGE, Mich. (WWMT) — As a result of a cyberattack, Stryker is experiencing a “severe, global disruption” on their Microsoft environment, according to the company on Wednesday. Officials with Stryker say they do not have indication of ransomware or malware, and believe the disruption is contained. “Our teams are working rapidly to understand the impact...Read More
Reduce the chances of hackers accessing your financial and personal information by taking these steps. Takeaways: Hackers seek your banking and credit card account numbers and login details to gain access to your accounts or sell your information to others. Hackers look for predictable vulnerabilities, so use strong passwords, don’t respond to links inside fake...Read More
When I got the call in 2019, it was one of the greatest moments of my life, and it always will be. The opportunity to represent Green Bay and Packers Nation across the country and around the world is something I will never forget. Like all chapters in life, this one has come to an...Read More
Inspiration can come from the most unlikely of places. For husband and wife filmmakers Shane Brady and Emily Zercher, it happened while they were on hold with the FBI. While buying a house during the pandemic, the pair was scammed into sending a down payment to a hacker. Once notified, they immediately took action — although...Read More
The cryptocurrency market took a heavy hit on Jan. 31, with Bitcoin (BTC) tumbling below $80,000. At press time, King Crypto fell by 7% in 24 hours to trade at $77,934.46. This is the lowest it has dropped to since April 2025, when a selloff happened right after U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. The wider...Read More
If your child’s school uses Canvas — and there’s a good chance it does — a cyberattack may have exposed their personal information. The popular learning management system, used by over 14 million K-12 students and 7 million college students around the country, was hit by a breach that could affect millions of students, teachers...Read More
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
