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British Airways Got Hacked with Details of 380000 Customers Stolen from its Website. The British Airways announced on Thursday (6Sep2018) that it was a victim of a very sophisticated and malicious criminal attack where the bank details of customers making bookings between 2158 GMT on August 21st and 2045 GMT on September 5th were stolen in the data…

Mega Chrome Extension Hacked, Laced with Data-Stealing Malware. The official Chrome extension for the cloud storage and file sharing service – MEGA.nz, has been compromised with malicious codes that steal user data for websites as well as private keys for cryptocurrency accounts. The malicious variant was detected by security researchers in the…

Your Router from Mikrotik Could Be Spying on You. If you or your company own a Miktotik Router, it could be spying on you or making someone rich at your bandwidth’s expense. Researchers from Qihoo 360 Netlab discovered that hackers are exploiting a vulnerability of these routers to send data packets to IP addresses of their choosing, effectively…

Anonymous Hack Collective Brings Down Bank of Spain Website with DDoS Attack in Support of Catalonia. Members of the hack collective, Anonymous, have claimed responsibility for bringing down Bank of Spain’s official website in a protest against Madrid's efforts to block Catalonia's separatist process. The Banco de España website was hit on Sunday…

Hacker Prosecuted and Sentenced for Leaking Naked Photos of Celebrities Online. George Garofano (26) from North Branford was one of four hackers involved in the 2014 Fappening case - the stealing and leaking of celebrities’ naked photos online. Also known as the “Celebgate” scandal, the hackers attacked 250 Apple iCloud accounts…

Former NSA Contractor Reality Winner Sentenced to 63 month in Jail Over Leak of Russian Hacking Reports. Reality Leigh Winner, the former contractor of the National Security Agency (NSA) and Air Force linguist who pleaded guilty to leaking sensitive information about Russia hacking was on Thursday (23Aug18) sentenced to five years and three months…

Air Canada Data Breach. Canadian Airline, Air Canada, has been forced to issue a password reset to all of its 1.7 million users of its mobile app after a huge number of accounts were compromised by hackers last week. The company notified its customers of a data breach involving its iOS, Android and BlackBerry mobile application which may have…

Cryptocurrency Exchanges Under Attack by Lazarus Through AppleJeus Malware. It’s been recently discovered that the Lazarus Group, an infamous North Korean cyber crime ring (supposedly backed by the government), has been targeting cryptocurrency exchanges, fintech companies and even banks with aggressive attacks involving high-value thefts.…

Personal Data of 130 Million Chinese Individuals Selling for 8 BTC on the Dark Web. A black hat hacker is selling the personal, private details of over 130 million hotel guests on a Chinese dark web forum. The seller is requesting 8 Bitcoin for the trove of data, claiming it had been obtained from Huazhu Hotels Group Ltd, which is one of China’s…

Apple Stops Facebook from Spying. Technically, Facebook knows everything. It’s not just as official as them having hard data about what other apps you use on your mobile phone. If say, you use Snapchat, Line or WhatsApp, and keep Facebook as a legacy thing for your older friends, Facebook will know your activities if you also made the mistake of…