Hacks/Cracks

Discover Hacks/Cracks News

Dell suffers security breach, reset customer passwords (but didn’t tell customers why until now)

data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20100%20100%22%3E%3C/svg%3E

Computer manufacturer Dell has revealed that earlier this month it discovered that hackers had breached its security and were attempting to access customer details - including names, email addresses, and hashed passwords.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 29, 2018

Texas hospital becomes victim of Dharma ransomware

The Altus Baytown Hospital (ABH) has revealed a ransomware outbreak which may have led to the leak of patient data.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 19, 2018

New HealthEquity Data Breach Exposes PII/PHI of Almost 21,000 Customers

HealthEquity, an IRS non-bank health savings trustee who is handling more than 3.4 million health savings accounts, was breached when an intruder accessed the email accounts of two HealthEquity team members, exposing protected health information (PHI)/personally identifiable information (PII) of 20,906 subscribers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 17, 2018

Official Google Twitter account hacked in Bitcoin scam

The epidemic of Twitter-based Bitcoin scams took another twist this week as attackers tweeted scams directly from two verified high-profile accounts. Criminals sent posts from both Google’s G Suite account and Target’s official Twitter account.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 15, 2018

The Hack Millions of People Are Installing Themselves

Your internet browser is a doorway to your computer. Everyday users are installing all manner of browser extensions—small pieces of software that live inside Chrome or Firefox—to optimize their workflow, block ads, or otherwise improve their web experience.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 15, 2018

WordPress GDPR compliance plugin hacked

The EU General Protection Data Regulation (GDPR) is supposed to make companies take extra care with their customers’ personal data. That includes gathering explicit consent to use information and keeping it safe from identity thieves.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 13, 2018

Income, tax and immigration data stolen in Healthcare.gov breach

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) now has details about the data stolen in the breach of Healthcare.gov that occurred last month. According to the government agency, a significant amount of personal information including partial Social Security numbers, tax information and immigration status was compromised in the breach.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 10, 2018

Dharma Ransomware Hits Altus Baytown Hospital's Systems

Altus Baytown Hospital (ABH) was hit by a ransomware attack on September 3, 2018, with a lot of documents containing patient info being encrypted and the attackers requesting a ransom to unlock the hospital's data.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 09, 2018

HSBC Bank in U.S. suffers data breach

HSBC Bank, one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, on Tuesday confirmed it suffered a data breach last month, which it believes affected less than 1% of its bank customers in the U.S.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 08, 2018

The OPM hack explained: Bad security practices meet China's Captain America

In April of 2015, IT staffers within the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the agency that manages the government's civilian workforce, discovered that some of its personnel files had been hacked. Among the sensitive data that was exfiltrated were millions of SF-86 forms, which contain extremely personal information gathered in background checks for people seeking government security clearances, along with records of millions of people's fingerprints.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 06, 2018

Personal Facebook Messages Of 81,000 Hacked Users Up For Sale

Hackers have published private messages from the compromised accounts of some 81,000 Facebook users and put them up for sale on the internet, according to a BBC News report.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 05, 2018

FIFA Hacked Again, Gets Ready for New Stories Based on the Stolen Data

FIFA President Gianni Infantino said in a statement to the press that the world football governing body's computer systems suffered a data breach for the second time this year. Moreover, both the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) are both suspected of having suffered data breaches.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 04, 2018

Feds: Chinese spies orchestrated massive hack that stole aviation secrets

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday unsealed charges that accused two Chinese government intelligence officers and eight alleged co-conspirators of conducting sustained computer intrusions into 13 companies in an attempt to steal designs for a turbofan engine used in commercial jetliners.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 31, 2018

Post-breach, Cathay Pacific hit by group action by UK law firm

Fresh from launching a £500 million group action against British Airways after a serious security breach, UK law firm SPG Law has wasted no time responding to the announcement last week of a hack at Cathay Pacific which saw the personal data of 9.4 million Cathay Pacific passengers breached.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 30, 2018

Girl Scouts Alerted to Possible Data Breach

Thousands of members of the Girl Scouts in California may have had their personal information stolen after one of its official email accounts was accessed by an unauthorized third party last month.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 29, 2018

Hackers steal personal data of up to 9.4 million Cathay Pacific passengers

Most people in the world would describe it as a company “admitting they’ve been hacked.” But if you’re the breached company and want to apply the maximum amount of PR spin, you might instead issue a release saying you’re “announcing a data security event affecting customer data.”

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 25, 2018

Yahoo agrees to pay $50 million to settle data breach lawsuit

Yahoo must pay $50 million in damages to victims of one of the largest data breaches on record.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 24, 2018

Trade.io Hacked, Loses 50 Million Tokens Worth $7.5 million

In a Medium blog post, Jim Preissler, the CEO of the trade.io cryptocurrency exchange, disclosed a security breach which allows hackers to steal roughly 50 million trade tokens (TIO) worth $7,5 million from a cold storage wallet owned by the company, as first reported by ZDNet.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 22, 2018

Hackers breach Healthcare.gov system, taking files on 75,000 people

A government system used by insurance agents and brokers to help customers sign up for healthcare plans was breached, allowing hackers to siphon off sensitive and personal data on 75,000 people.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 20, 2018

North Korean hacker crew steals $571M in cryptocurrency across 5 attacks

North Korean hacking outfit “Lazarus” is the most profitable cryptocurrency-hacker syndicate in the world.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 19, 2018

Akira Ransomware Gang Targets Linux Servers, Extorts $42 Million

Threat Actors Are Actively Using Pupy RAT Malware to Attack Linux Systems

Linux Version of DinodasRAT Raises Serious Security Concerns