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Attackers gained access to the accounts through a vulnerability discovered after the Facebook’s “view as” feature was introduced earlier in the year

The feature allows users greater control of their privacy by letting them view their account as another user. Once attacks gained access to the Facebook accounts, they also gained access to accounts logged in via Facebook such as Tinder, Instagram, Airbnb and Spotify.

Since Friday’s attack the Facebook logins for the leaked accounts have started appearing for sale on the dark web, for as little as $3.90 each, with some email logins being sold for $2.70, according to Money Guru

Researchers found that for $970 it was possible to purchase a person’s online footprint, including all usernames, passwords and email addresses. The best way to protect yourself and your accounts is to always opt for a multiple step verification process where possible. For example, a 2-factor authentication any time you log into Facebook from a new device.

UK Based company Money Guru, who released these findings, said social media account details are frequently targeted by hackers because they give a good insight in targeted advertising. The report found that other accounts were also being offered for sale on the dark web. Reddit accounts came in slightly cheaper at $2.09, and Instagram and Pintrest on the more expensive end at $6.30 and $8.48 respectively.

Facebook has said that they are working with the FBI in investigating the hack and will inform users when they know more. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has assured users that passwords and credit card information was not accessed.

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There have been several victims of this attack, and they all claim to have received the same message from an attacker named “Pumpam”. The message lets the victim know that the hackers have possession of the account, and to email a particular address in order to start the recovery. It also mentions that the account will be deleted within 3 hours if there is no response.

Victims of the attack found that they could not recover the account through Instagram, as the account’s email address had been changed. This frustration and desperation to get possession of their accounts lead some users to pay the ransom. However, this wasn’t always successful, with some victims claiming that their account was still deleted.

Many of the victims feel let down by Instagram after they didn’t play an active role in helping them gain control of their accounts. Victims felt frustrated dealing with Instagram’s customer support when they only received generic responses to the issue, however this changed when vice’s tech arm Motherboard contacted Instagram about the issue and helped the users get possession back.

At present few details are known about the hacking campaign, including the hacker’s identities and where they are from. We urge Instagram users to be vigilant about their account security, make sure you have a secure password, that you back up your content in the event it is deleted, and don’t click on any nefarious looking links.

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Within two hours, Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Tech Bureau Corp. was hacked last September 14 which was unfortunately discovered four days after the culprits managed to steal 6.7 billion yen or 59.67 million dollars-worth of cryptocurrency composed of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Monacoin; more than half of which belonged to customers.

The cryptocurrency was stolen from internet-connected “hot wallets” which are more vulnerable than cold wallets that remain in the dark until connected.

The customers won’t have to wallow in despair though. Tech Bureau managed to merge with JASDAQ-listed Fisco Ltd. For a majority ownership investment amounting 5 billion yen in order to pay back the customers.

This comes after another massive cryptocurrency hack last January when crypto-exchange Coincheck lost a massive 530 million dollars-worth of digital currency. Coincheck in turn was absorbed by Japanese online brokerage group Monex Group Inc.

Amazing how resilient the industry remains, hack after hack. Despite these, over 160 entities express their willingness to enter the cryptocurrency exchange market, perhaps due to the recent Bitcoin surge. Bitcoin has since dropped but value remains at over 6,000 dollars.

Japanese crypto-exchanges have lately come under fire for lack of security and mismanagement, and will continue to burn more after the recent hack of Tech Bureau. The Japan Financial Services Agency has yet to approve the aforementioned cryptocurrency exchange applicants.

The FSA conducted an investigation and audit of various cryptocurrency exchanges and found that security was lax and management was sloppy. Apparently Tech Bureau hasn’t learned its lesson.

Further measures will be required to tighten security amidst Japan’s cryptocurrency regulation, the first country to do so. Regulation is seen by some as a threat to the openness and freedom of cryptocurrency much like the fledgling internet before censorship. But Japan sees it as more of an encouragement and a way to include much needed security measures much like cryptocurrency’s physical counterpart.

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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 largest and most extensive hotel chains.

With 13 different hotel brands spanning over 5000 hotels across more than 1000 cities throughout China, Huazhu have massive amounts of data on file.

Multiple cyber-security firms spotted the advertisement on the online forum and raised alerts immediately, and was further reported extensively by Chinese media. Huazhu themselves are currently conducting internal investigations.

The data being held captive

According to the ad description posted by the hacker, the data for sale is 141.5GB in size and contains 240 million records, with personal details about approximately 130 million hotel guests.

These details are believed to include the following:

• Official website registration information (ID card number, mobile phone, email address, password)
• Check-in registration information (ID card number, name, address, birthday)
• Booking information (ID card number, name, mobile phone, check-in and departure times, hotel ID number, room number)

The individuals which this data correlates to are customers who previously stayed at any of Huazhu’s hotel chains.

Tracing the breach

Zibao, a Chinese cyber security firm, reported to a local news outlet that they’ve managed to verify the authenticity of the data, and that the breach itself likely took place earlier in August.

Their current theory is that the breach resulted because of a mistake from a member of Huazhu’s software development team. One of the programmers seemed to have accidentally uploaded copies of their entire database onto a Github account, which must’ve been picked up and replicated by the hacker.

And now it’s all for sale.

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The buzz surrounding the cryptocurrency pointed to the meteoric rise of Bitcoin from valuation of around USD950 in January 2017, to jump nearly 20 times to USD19,200 in December 2017.

With huge amount of profits made at such a short period of time, the cryptocurrency has also attracted unwanted attentions as well.

South Korea’s cryptocurrency exchange hacked

Bithumb, South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange was hacked and personal information of around 30,000 of its customers were believed to be stolen. The culprit was fingered as North Korean hacking sources, according to South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) or simply the country’s spy agency.

Apparently, the attack dated back to February by targeting one of Bithumb employee’s home PC. Subsequently, the employee only found out in June, that its home PC has become a victim of hackers. Since then, the hackers have demanded a payment of USD 5.5 million from Bithumb in exchange for the deleting of traders’ personal information.

In addition, it was estimated that around USD 7 million of digital money was stolen by the hackers as well which may surge in valuation to USD 82.7 million by now.

According to NIS, Bithumb was not the only exchange targeted by hackers, another exchange, Coinis was on the hackers’ crosshair as well and had its system breached in September 2017.

Then, the South Korea’s spy agency had also identified second “trademark” North Korea’s hacking attack on Coinis in October 2017. However, the second attack was reportedly thwarted based on the local media reports.

One third of trading platforms hacked: U.S. Homeland Security

South Korea is not alone in these cryptocurrency exchanges breaches. As a study funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security indicated that nearly one third of the bitcoin trading platforms had been hacked since the creation of bitcoin from 2009 to 2015 period. Following the hack, almost half of the bitcoin trading platforms were forced to close within the first six years.

Moreover, one of the biggest heist occurred at Tokyo’s MtGox exchange in early 2014, where around USD350 million values in bitcoins were pickpocketed by the hackers. It was heard that two years after the attack, many investors had yet to recover their deposits lost to the hacking.

Verdict

As the saying goes, “no risks, no gains”, cryptocurrency market being a new market does come with its own set of risks, and offers high return as well. The anonymity nature of the cryptocurrency has also made its perfect target for hackers, especially among the big exchanges where huge amount of cryptocurrency were stored.

Regulating and policing of this industry are still in its infancy and may need more time for the various authorities to plan and implement them to mitigate the cryptocurrency risk effectively.

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The price dropped a little over the weekend, and is currently hovering just over $4100, according to reports from Coindesk.

The value of Bitcoin has been climbing throughout 2017, and has quadrupled in value since the start of the year, with the value almost doubling in August. Until now, Bitcoin had never managed to surpass the $3000 mark.

Bitcoin has been in rough waters during this month as a result of a fork, with the Bitcoin Cash spin-off emerging to challenge Bitcoin in a move that could have seen the value plummeting.

Despite tension amongst investors, Bitcoin demonstrated its resilience and only increased in value, whilst the competing fork Bitcoin Cash is currently floating far below it’s peak price.

Projections from Goldman Sachs estimate that the value of Bitcoin will top out just below $5000, and may well plummet to half that value immediately after.

This analysis is based on the ‘Elliot Wave’ principle, a trend in financial statistics that predicts; after five consecutive surges in price due to market impulses a product will enter a ‘corrective’ phase and it’s value and growth will normalize.

However, unlike most currencies, the total circulation of Bitcoin is fixed at 21 million digital Bitcoins. This suggests that as larger institutions and more people accept cryptocurrencies as an aspect of daily life, they will become far more in demand than could ever hope to be supplied. This will skyrocket the value of Bitcoin.

Many groups are already showing significant interest in securing vast quantities of Bitcoin, perhaps hoping to cash out at the perfect opportunity or those who need to hide their activities from increasingly pervasive state and corporate surveillance.

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