20GB of Intel internal documents were leaked online

Posted on 07/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

More than 20GB worth of Intel internal documents has been uploaded on Mega, and according to ZDNet, the chipmaker is now trying to ascertain how the files were leaked. A Swiss software engineer named Till Kottmann published the documents, most of whi...

Alleged Twitter hacker was previously caught stealing a fortune in Bitcoin

Posted on 03/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Graham Ivan Clark, the alleged 17-year-old “mastermind” behind the massive Twitter breach that compromised high-profile accounts, like those belonging to Joe Biden and Elon Musk, got caught stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Bitcoins...

Everything we know about the Twitter Bitcoin hack

Posted on 16/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Author’s note: This story was first published on 7/16/2020, and last updated on the same day. Check the Latest Updates section for the most recent developments. Engadget What happened?Early in the afternoon (Eastern time) on July 15th, a hacker -- o...

Twitter claims ‘social engineering attack’ led to crypto scam tweets

Posted on 16/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

In its first detailed statements since someone took over a number of high profile accounts Wednesday afternoon, Twitter posted a thread explaining “what we know so far.” While rumors have swirled about what may have caused a compromise that gave hack...

Cyberattack forces Honda to suspend global production for a day

Posted on 09/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Honda was forced to suspend global production for a day due to a cyberattack that infiltrated the company's internal servers in Tokyo, Financial Times reports. Honda detected the virus on Monday and was forced to send some employees home for the day...

Nintendo says 140,000 more NNID accounts may have been illegally accessed

Posted on 09/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Nintendo shut down NNID logins back in April after it discovered hackers had compromised some 160,000 accounts using legacy credentials. Now, the company says that figure may have totalled 300,000. In a Japanese language statement posted today, Ninte...

Ukraine catches hacker who tried to sell 773 million stolen email addresses

Posted on 19/05/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Today, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) announced that it has detained the hacker, known as Sanix, who caused a stir last year for trying to sell a database with 773 million email addresses and 21 million unique passwords. Officials say that 87-...

Facebook says it will tighten account security following 2018 hack

Posted on 08/02/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Facebook is promising to bolster its security processes in the wake of a 2018 hack that exposed data for 29 million users. The social network has proposed a settlement in a lawsuit over the breach that would see the company check more often for susp...

Guardian: Saudi prince’s account used to hack Jeff Bezos via WhatsApp

Posted on 21/01/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Amazon spends millions of dollars each year physically protecting CEO Jeff Bezos, but his personal data remained all too vulnerable. According to a bombshell report published in The Guardian this afternoon, Bezos was the victim of a hacking operation...

FBI seizes site dedicated to selling data breach information

Posted on 20/01/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Following an international operation, the FBI has seized and shut down a website called WeLeakInfo that sold private user data from over 10,000 data breaches. As part of the operation, police in the Netherlands and Northern Ireland arrested two 22-ye...

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