2020-6-3 19:30 |
Coincheck suffered a data breach that may have leaked users’ emails and personal information, including date of birth and phone number. origin »
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Kroll, the claims agent working on the bankruptcy case for FTX, a once-prominent crypto exchange, has fallen victim to a cybersecurity breach. The breach, reported on Friday, has led to the compromise of non-sensitive customer data belonging to specific claimants.
2023-8-26 16:00 | |
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A class action is seeking damages from the password manager following a data breach in August 2022.
2023-1-6 08:59 | |
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The world of cryptocurrencies is not new to the concept of a hack. However, a data breach isn't heard of as much. Malta today reported the first case of privacy breach wherein the Trident Crypto Fund The post Malta-based crypto-fund suffers data breach; 10K user records affected appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-3-5 17:53 | |
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Security researchers have discovered a data breach that exposed 86 million records of the crypto loan platform YouHodler. 86 million YouHodler records exposed According to vpnMentor’s security experts, the breach has exposed a massive amount of sensitive data.
2019-7-25 14:01 | |
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Cryptocurrency lending platform YouHodler exposed privacy data, including crypto wallet addresses, from thousands of its cryptocurrency users, vpnMonitor reports. Data breach Is Severe with Widespread Implications vpnMentor and a team led by data scientists Noam Rotem and Ran Locar discovered a significant cryptocurrency data breach affecting 86 million records.
2019-7-25 08:35 | |
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In the cryptocurrency world, exchanges remain a very profitable target for hackers and other types of criminals. In the case of QuickBit, a Swedish trading platform, a data breach took place, albeit it seems no money was stolen in the process.
2019-7-25 23:00 | |
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QuickBit cryptocurrency exchange recently experienced a data breach, which affected about two percent of its customers. In an updated report on July 22, 2019, the company said the breach was as a result of a third-party system upgrade, but customers’ accounts and transactions were still safe and intact.
2019-7-23 13:00 | |
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Almost two years after a major data breach hit Equifax, the company has finally agreed to a global settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). As per the proposed terms of the deal, the consumer credit reporting agency will shell out as much as $700 million to settle with federal agencies and 50 US states and territories.
2019-7-23 09:37 | |
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The crypto exchange left a database open on the internet and leaked data for up to 300,000 users.
2019-7-23 14:30 | |
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Hackers have stolen a massive trove of sensitive data and defaced the website of SyTech, a major contractor working for Russian intelligence agency FSB (Federal Security Service). BBC Russia, which reported the breach, said “it’s possible that this is the largest data leak in the history of the work of Russian special services on the Internet.
2019-7-22 08:36 | |
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Dash-focused wallet MyDashWallet announced it experienced a data breach from May 13 to July 12, with the wallet provider stating that anyone who used MyDashWallet in that time frame should assume the hacker has their private keys.
2019-7-17 22:14 | |
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Bulgaria has suffered what has been described as the biggest data leak in its history. The stolen data, which hackers emailed to local media on July 15, originates from the country’s tax reporting service – the National Revenue Agency (NRA).
2019-7-16 15:40 | |
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The Federal Trade Commission has agreed to hand out a $5 billion fine on Facebook regarding its handling of user privacy during the Cambridge Analytica data breach. The Justice Department is now expected to review and approve the settlement.
2019-7-16 23:43 | |
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Recently, Facebook came under heavy fire for a massive security breach of its network and personal data pilferage of millions of users. However, in a letter to US senators, the social media giant has assured that it will not be collecting and storing data of users of its “cryptocurrency” Libra.
2019-7-11 05:30 | |
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Hot on the heels of British Airways, international hotel group Marriott could face the wrath of the UKents, and 30 million related to residents of 31 countries in the European Economic Area (EEA).
2019-7-10 09:25 | |
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The Maryland Department of Labor announced that a security flaw in its databases may have exposed the sensitive and personal data of around 78,000 people. The agency commented that the breach occurred earlier this year after nine employees fell victim to what cybersecurity experts call a phishing attack.
2019-7-7 20:30 | |
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With every policy shift, every deplatforming, and every data breach, our faith in Big Tech decreases. In Washington, the drums of anti-trust beat ever louder. But what consumers truly want isn’t necessarily a break up of today’s tech companies: they […] The post Storecoin brings tokenized data to the masses, announces latest milestone-based token offering appeared first on CoinMarketCap.
2019-6-21 15:00 | |
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By CCN: A major data breach has rocked Quest Diagnostics, exposing the personal details of nearly 12 million patients in the process. The incident, which was reported in a public filing, occurred on May 14 after centralized third-party billing company American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) informed the diagnostic testing company about “potential unauthorized activity” on a “web payment page.
2019-6-4 01:15 | |
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“The Eye of Sauron casts its gaze upon the Lightning Network. ”This is how Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun (aka, roasbeef) has heralded the coming of Watchtowers to the Lightning Network.
2019-6-3 17:43 | |
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Popular news aggregation platform Flipboard has disclosed a glaring security breach, which gave hackers unauthorized access to its database systems for more than nine months. As a precautionary step, it has reset all users’ passwords.
2019-5-29 11:25 | |
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In the latest development over its security breach, cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia has filed for bankruptcy protection in the U. S. The New Zealand-based exchange, which has been dealing with the fallout of a January 2019 hack, went into liquidation and stopped all trading earlier this month.
2019-5-28 17:47 | |
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Facebook, the most popular social network in the world, has been affected by different data leaks over the last years. This has harmed users and individuals that had data stored on their platform. Now, the security researcher Anurag Sen discovered that there was a public Amazon Web Services (AWS) database that had the information of […]
2019-5-21 18:33 | |
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By CCN: Another day, another Facebook data leak affecting millions of dubious users. This time around, security researcher Anurag Sen discovered a public Amazon Web Services (AWS) database containing the contact information of more than 49 million Instagram accounts, TechCrunch reports.
2019-5-21 00:35 | |
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The average cost of a data breach is $3.86 million dollars
2019-5-19 16:00 | |
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Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), released Wednesday, which analyzed more than 41,000 cybersecurity incidents and over 2,000 data breaches from 86 countries. It found that cyber attacks by nation states and parties affiliated with them represented 23% of data breaches, up from 12% in 2018 and 19% in 2017, Corporate spying is on […]
2019-5-9 19:16 | |
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Identity theft is a major worry for many people today. This was compounded by the Equifax breach that leaked the data of over 140 million Americans. The data in that breach included information such as addresses and social security numbers in addition to names and phone numbers. It was a nightmare scenario and there has […]
2019-4-10 19:41 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Tang. The Chinese security service provider 360 Security has issued a warning that a large number of crypto exchanges have been targeted by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus and that the number is still rising after the recent hacks of crypto exchanges DragonEx, Etbox and BiKi.
2019-4-2 21:54 | |
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The former chief executive of shuttered bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox is going for the trifecta now that his trial is over. Mark Karpeles got off scot-free on charges of embezzlement and breach of trust.
2019-3-30 17:25 | |
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A data breach has occurred within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), resulting in the private data of nearly three million disaster victims being shared with an unnamed contractor. Who’s at Risk? The shared information includes home addresses, social security numbers and banking information for victims of U.
2019-3-24 01:08 | |
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The Tokyo District Court has found Mark Karpeles, the former head of now-defunct Bitcoin exchange platform Mt. Gox, guilty of record tampering but innocent on other charges related to embezzlement and breach of trust.
2019-3-16 22:01 | |
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In September 2017, US-based credit reporting firm Equifax revealed that its site had suffered a breach, and 143 million citizens’ records were stolen in the attack – names, addresses, social security numbers, and all.
2019-2-27 10:44 | |
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When was the last time you got a data breach notification, a letter in the mail about a potential compromise, or an email triggering a password reset on one of your accounts? What about your kids? When it comes to data breaches, we almost exclusively focus on adults.
2019-2-24 22:30 | |
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There are two primary reasons why storing your private crypto keys in the cloud is a bad idea. First, your cloud provider represents a centralized honeypot that could experience a security breach, allowing cyber criminals to access your data.
2019-2-19 00:19 | |
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Coinmama, a Bitcoin and Ethereum broker based in Israel, has become the target of a major security breach that has resulted in the theft of thousands of user records. According to a notice posted by the broker, 450,000 Coinmama users were affected by the attack, and their email addresses and encrypted passwords were stolen.
2019-2-18 21:02 | |
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This week, JP Morgan Chase launched a blockchain-based IOU system that definitely isn’t a cryptocurrency. Waves Platform and Coinbase both released any Bitcoin SV they were previously holding. Two public pension plans invested in blockchain technology.
2019-2-17 10:24 | |
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The team at Coinmama has notified users of the crypto brokerage platform that it suffered a security breach that has resulted in customer data being available for sale on a dark web registry. The data.
2019-2-16 18:15 | |
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Israel-based crypto brokerage Coinmama — which allows users to purchase Bitcoin and Ethereum using a credit card — has suffered a major data breach affecting 450,000 users
2019-2-16 14:38 | |
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Google’s just launched a new Chrome browser extension that’s designed to help protect your online accounts from intruders. It really should just be built into the browser, but until that happens, you’ll want to install it – and hopefully never see it again.
2019-2-6 14:36 | |
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While hardcore cryptocurrency enthusiasts often tout blockchain for its heightened security, the technology is not perfect – and there are often tons of vulnerabilities in the code. Indeed, blockchain companies have received at least 3,000 vulnerability reports in 2018 alone.
2018-12-30 10:00 | |
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In the days after Facebook‘s September announcement about a bug that may have compromised 90 million users – yes, that was three months and several earth-shattering Facebook headlines ago – someone asked me what consumers could have done to avoid being caught up in yet another data breach.
2018-12-28 22:00 | |
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Lucy Wang believes that blockchain technology holds the key to the actualization of robust data security for the digital landscape. The Lambda co-founder made the call recently while talking about the recent Marriott Hotel data breach.
2018-12-17 16:53 | |
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Remember that massive breach of the Mariott-owned Starwood hotel chain from last month, which saw 500 million users’ data stolen? The New York Times reports that the intrusion was part of a larger state-sponsored intelligence-gathering effort spurred on by China‘s spy agency, the Ministry of State Security.
2018-12-12 09:46 | |
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Remember that massive breach of the Mariott-owned Starwood hotel chain from last month, which saw 500 million users’ data stolen? The New York Times reports that the intrusion was part of a larger state-sponsored intelligence-gathering effort spurred on by China‘s spy agency, the Ministry of State Security.
2018-12-12 09:46 | |
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The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA) just announced itcealed the 2016 breach for over a year, in which hackers gained access to personal data of 57 million people worldwide, such as names, email addresses, and telephone numbers.
2018-11-27 13:16 | |
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The data reckoning has arrived. We’re already too familiar with the breach headlines: Equifax, Under Armour, Target. But in 2018, social media brands came under the spotlight as well: half a million accounts’ data were inadvertently exposed in Google+, and another 29 million users’ data in the Facebook breach this fall.
2018-11-24 13:30 | |
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Future versions of Firefox will warn the user when they wander onto a website that’s been the victim of a recently-reported data breach. The tool, called Firefox Monitor Notifications, is available now in Firefox Quantum and will be rolled out to users of the mainline browser in the coming weeks.
2018-11-15 15:57 | |
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Google yesterday set off another controversy when it announced the acquisition of Streams, DeepMind’s algorithm-based healthcare data management platform. The controversy stems from what the deal’s detractors view as a breach of trust by Deepmind.
2018-11-15 00:21 | |
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International cybersecurity solutions provider Group-IB has come up with a scoring model to grade crypto exchanges based on their level of security. The scoring model was created by Group-IB in conjunction with Swiss-based Cryptolns (which is operated by Swiss insurance broker APIS AS), and the grading is intrinsic to CryptoIns’ new cryptocurrency exchange insurance, which will allow exchange users to cover up to 15 BTC worth of digital assets held in their exchange accounts.
2018-11-13 00:43 | |
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Facebook may well look back on 2018 as its annus horribilis. From the Cambridge Analytica scandal in March, to a data breach affecting 29 million users in September, from accusations of fraud over misrepresentation of video viewing figures, to claims that it is destroying the very fabric of society, the social network’s reputation has suffered a battering.
2018-11-1 19:05 | |
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Hyperliquid, a Layer 1 blockchain, and decentralized exchange, faced sharp declines in token value and total value locked (TVL) over the weekend after reports surfaced of potential involvement by North Korean hackers.
US spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs are seeing varied market performance, signaling divergent investors’ interest in the top digital assets. On Dec. 23, Bitcoin ETFs recorded their third straight day of outflows, totaling $226.
It’s crucial to securely back up and store your seed phrase in multiple safe places, ensuring that you’re the only one who can access it when needed.
North Korean hackers have stolen billions in cryptocurrency and sensitive corporate data by impersonating venture capitalists, recruiters, and remote IT workers. Researchers made the revelations during Cyberwarcon, an annual cybersecurity conference, on Nov.
The US government successfully recovered nearly $19. 3 million in crypto less than 24 hours after it was mysteriously siphoned from government-associated wallets, according to analysts, including ZachXBT and Arkham Intelligence.
A hacker may have stolen over $20 million worth of crypto, including stablecoins and Ethereum (ETH), from a US government-controlled wallet connected to the infamous 2016 Bitfinex hack. The suspicious transfers occurred on Oct.
Transak, a company providing fiat-to-crypto services, has reported a significant data breach affecting more than 92,000 users. In an Oct. 21 update, the firm revealed that the breach stemmed from a phishing attack targeting an employee’s laptop, leading to unauthorized access to sensitive user information.