Hacking News

An attempted cyber attack on the Democratic National Committee’s voter database turned out to be a “test” run by a state party security team, a relieved DNC announced Wednesday. Read more

An electronic road sign on a New York City bridge was apparently hacked to display a vulgar message against President Trump. The road sign at Pulaski Bridge, which spans Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and Long Island City, Queens, flipped sometime Wednesday night to read, “F— Trump.” Read more

The website of Sweden’s centre-left Social Democrats has been hacked for a second time, and the IP address responsible was linked to Russia and North Korea, according to the party’s IT provider. The hack was a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, meaning those responsible disrupted the site to make it unavailable to users. Read more

The high street chain said it had been contacted by someone who claimed that they had obtained the details of approximately 20,000 customers. The company confirmed that 386 of the accounts had been compromised and said was it was working to establish the exact number. Read more

St. Lawrence County’s website is shut down after being hacked Tuesday afternoon. That’s according to the county’s assistant administrator, Dylan Soper. Read more

Riverdale stars and real-life couple Lili Reinhart and Cole Sprouse had their Twitter accounts hacked earlier this week. Sprouse’ account was hacked on Monday, and a tweet that alleged that he took part in sexual acts while working for Disney posted on his feed. Read more

An e-mail to customers said: “On June 13, we began to contact a number of our customers as a precaution after we found that some of our security systems had been accessed in the past using sophisticated malware. Read more

NORWOOD, OH (FOX19) – Multiple Wright-Patt Credit Union customers are reporting that their bank accounts have been hacked and drained. Norwood resident Kayla Broadus, 19, is getting ready to start college at Northern Kentucky University next week. Broadus says when she noticed money was missing, she was devastated. Read more

A widespread hacking campaign that appears to stem from Russia is affecting hundreds of Instagram users, leaving people locked out of their accounts. Read more

The Twitter account of NBC national correspondent Peter Alexander appears to have been hijacked by hackers claiming to represent Turkey’s “cyber army.” Read more