In a major privacy breach, private data including private messages of millions of Discord users are being sold on a clear web website. The website, Spy.pet, is an internet-scraping company, that has been collecting data from Discord since November 2023. So far, as seen by Hackread.com, it has sold four billion public Discord messages which […]
A technology company that routes millions of SMS text messages across the world has secured an exposed database that was spilling one-time security codes that may have granted users’ access to their Facebook, Google and TikTok accounts. The Asian technology and internet company YX International manufactures cellular networking equipment and provides SMS text message routing […]
Man sentenced to six years in prison for stealing millions in cryptocurrency via SIM swapping Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2024 A US man has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in a fraudulent scheme that resulted in the theft of millions of dollars through SIM swapping. Daniel James Junk (22) of Portland was […]
Millions of servers exist worldwide, many of which are hidden away in server farms and data centers. But have you ever considered the technology’s origins? The history of server hardware is fascinating because it reveals just how rapidly technology evolves and its role in data center development. Before a review of the history of servers, […]
Sinbad has processed millions of dollars’ worth of virtual currency from Lazarus Group heists, including the Horizon Bridge and Axie Infinity heists,” reads a Department of Treasury press statement.
Millions of browser-based cryptocurrency wallets are affected by an open-source software vulnerability that can be abused by attackers to steal over $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency. The vulnerability, dubbed as Randstorm, affects the 0.13 version of Bitcoin JS, a popular JavaScript library used to generate cryptocurrency wallets. More in detail The vulnerability primarily affects multiple […]
Millions of cryptocurrency wallets created between 2011 and 2015 are potentially affected by an open source software vulnerability and might need to be regenerated, according to new research from Unciphered. While helping a customer regain access to a locked Bitcoin wallet last year, Unciphered discovered issues in the open source JavaScript Bitcoin library BitcoinJS that […]
A security researcher said he discovered millions of Chinese citizen identity numbers spilling online after an e-commerce store left its database exposed to the internet. Viktor Markopoulos, a security researcher working for CloudDefense.ai, said he found the database belonging to Zhefengle, a China-based e-commerce store for importing goods from overseas. The database contained more than […]
Threat actors have compromised sensitive health data on tens of millions of US patients so far this year, according to new figures released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The HHS said that there had been a 239% increase in “large breaches” reported to its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the […]
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