Latest Hacked news

SEC confirms X account was hacked in SIM swapping attack

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission confirmed today that its X account was hacked through a SIM-swapping attack on the cell phone number associated with the account.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 22, 2024
- 06:04 PM
- 1
Payoneer accounts in Argentina hacked in 2FA bypass attacks

Numerous Payoneer users in Argentina report waking up to find that their 2FA-protected accounts were hacked and funds stolen after receiving SMS OTP codes while they were sleeping.
- Bill Toulas
- January 19, 2024
- 03:28 PM
- 0
US SEC’s X account hacked to announce fake Bitcoin ETF approval

The X account for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was hacked today to issue a fake announcement on the approval of Bitcoin ETFs on security exchanges.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 09, 2024
- 05:30 PM
- 5
Victoria court recordings exposed in reported ransomware attack

Australia's Court Services Victoria (CSV) is warning that video recordings of court hearings were exposed after suffering a reported Qilin ransomware attack.
- Bill Toulas
- January 02, 2024
- 10:47 AM
- 0
FBI disrupts Blackcat ransomware operation, creates decryption tool

The Department of Justice announced today that the FBI successfully breached the ALPHV ransomware operation's servers to monitor their activities and obtain decryption keys.
- Lawrence Abrams
- December 19, 2023
- 09:16 AM
- 0
Exploit released for critical Cisco IOS XE flaw, many hosts still hacked

Public exploit code is now available for the critical Cisco IOS XE vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-20198 that was leveraged as a zero-day to hack tens of thousands of devices.
- Ionut Ilascu
- October 30, 2023
- 11:09 PM
- 0
Mixin Network suspends operations following $200 million hack

Mixin Network, an open-source, peer-to-peer transactional network for digital assets, has announced today on Twitter that deposits and withdrawals are suspended effective immediately due to a $200 million hack the platform suffered on Saturday.
- Bill Toulas
- September 25, 2023
- 09:23 AM
- 0
Hackers steal $53 million worth of cryptocurrency from CoinEx

Global cryptocurrency exchange CoinEX announced that someone hacked its hot wallets and stole large amounts of digital assets that were used to support the platform's operations.
- Bill Toulas
- September 13, 2023
- 10:11 AM
- 6
KuCoin's Twitter account hacked to promote crypto scam

KuCoin's Twitter account was hacked, allowing attackers to promote a fake giveaway scam that led to the theft of over $22.6K in cryptocurrency.
- Bill Toulas
- April 24, 2023
- 12:17 PM
- 0
Hacked sites caught spreading malware via fake Chrome updates

Hackers are compromising websites to inject scripts that display fake Google Chrome automatic update errors that distribute malware to unaware visitors.
- Bill Toulas
- April 11, 2023
- 04:14 PM
- 1
Acer confirms breach after 160GB of data for sale on hacking forum

Taiwanese computer giant Acer confirmed that it suffered a data breach after threat actors hacked a server hosting private documents used by repair technicians.
- Bill Toulas
- March 07, 2023
- 10:38 AM
- 0
Hackers steal crypto from Bitcoin ATMs by exploiting zero-day bug

Hackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability in General Bytes Bitcoin ATM servers to steal cryptocurrency from customers.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 20, 2022
- 03:17 PM
- 1
Verified Twitter accounts hacked to send fake suspension notices

Threat actors are hacking verified Twitter accounts to send fake but well-written suspension messages that attempt to steal other verified users' credentials.
- Lawrence Abrams
- July 02, 2022
- 11:12 AM
- 2
Online gun shops in the US hacked to steal credit cards

Rainier Arms and Numrich Gun Parts, two American gun shops that operate e-commerce sites on rainierarms.com and gunpartscorp.com, have disclosed data breach incidents resulting from card skimmer infections on their sites.
- Bill Toulas
- June 07, 2022
- 12:27 PM
- 1
$620 million in crypto stolen from Axie Infinity's Ronin bridge

A hacker has stolen almost $620 million in Ethereum and USDC tokens from Axie Infinity's Ronin network bridge, making it possibly the largest crypto hack in history.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 29, 2022
- 03:38 PM
- 0
Hacked WordPress sites force visitors to DDoS Ukrainian targets

Hackers are compromising WordPress sites to insert a malicious script that uses visitors' browsers to perform distributed denial-of-service attacks on Ukrainian websites.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 28, 2022
- 05:55 PM
- 0
Reality Winner's Twitter account was hacked to target journalists

Twitter account of former intelligence specialist, Reality Winner was hacked over the weekend by threat actors looking to target journalists at prominent media organizations. After taking over Winner's verified Twitter account, hackers changed the profile name to "Feedback Team" to impersonate Twitter staff and began sending out DMs.
- Ax Sharma
- March 01, 2022
- 05:46 AM
- 0
Crypto.com confirms 483 accounts hacked, $34 million withdrawn

Crypto.com has confirmed that a multi-million dollar cyberattack led to the compromise of 483 of its customer accounts. Although, the company's CEO stresses that customer funds are not at risk. Crypto.com is reportedly the world's third-largest cryptocurrency trading platform.
- Ax Sharma
- January 20, 2022
- 04:10 AM
- 0
DNA testing firm discloses data breach affecting 2.1 million people

DNA Diagnostics Center (DDC), an Ohio-based DNA testing company, has disclosed a hacking incident that affects 2,102,436 persons.
- Bill Toulas
- November 30, 2021
- 08:26 AM
- 4
Hackers undetected on Queensland water supplier server for 9 months

Hackers stayed hidden for nine months on a server holding customer information for a Queensland water supplier, illustrating the need of better cyberdefenses for critical infrastructure.
- Bill Toulas
- November 11, 2021
- 11:44 AM
- 0