Almost 900 Hong Kong people were victims of data breaches over the last month after fraudsters hijacked the WhatsApp accounts of social services and schools, the city’s privacy commissioner revealed on Thursday. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said that fraudsters had hacked the WhatsApp accounts of five social welfare services and […]
Hong Kong’s Consumer Council has revealed that the personal data of more than 25,000 people may have been leaked in a cyberattack against the watchdog, up from an earlier estimate of 8,000. Gilly Wong Fung-han, chief executive of the council, on Monday also said computer systems operating its external services, such as those handling inquiries […]
A cryptocurrency business based in Hong Kong announced on Monday that hackers had stolen around $200 million of its assets after attacking its cloud service provider. Mixin, which describes itself as building “open source software that always puts security, privacy and decentralization first” announced the incident in a social media post. The company said that […]
Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange platform, CoinEx, has seen the loss of US$70 million in cryptocurrency following a cyber attack. The cryptocurrency exchange platform made users aware of the cyber attack on September 12 via a post on social media site X (formerly Twitter). In the post, the company explained that the cyber attack was discovered after its […]