In a statement the U.S. Justice Department stated, it had seized more than $1 billion worth of bitcoin associated with the underground online marketplace Silk Road. The Justice Department is seeking the forfeiture of the bitcoins, which had been in the possession of an unnamed hacker who had stolen them from the “notorious” website. The…
In a statement Tyler Technologies said, its network was hacked by a ransomware, a kind of computer virus through which hackers encrypts files and decrypt them once their payment demands are met. The hacker was able to gain access to its internal networks, but could not access to the systems it hosts for clients; incidentally,…
In September 2017, credit reporting agency Equifax decided to come clean: it had been hacked and personal sensitive information of 143 million, which was later revised to 147.9 million, U.S. citizens had been compromised. The stolen personal data included names, date of birth, and Social Security numbers. Earlier this week on Monday, the U.S. Department…
It would appear that Paige Thompson wanted to get caught: she posted extract of the data that she hacked on GitHub, a publicly available coding platform. In a significant development, Capital One Financial Corp disclosed that a hacker, who has been arrested, had managed to obtain the personal information, including names and addresses, of around…
Hackers stole $31.5 million from Bithumb, the 6th busiest cryptocurrency exchange in the world. According to a notice put up by Bithumb on its website on Wednesday, it has stopped all of its trading activities after it ascertained that “some cryptocurrencies worth about [$31.5 million] 35 billion won has been seized between late yesterday and…
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