Hacking News

Goliath and Goliath is an entertainment and comedy agency that suffered a large hack recently. Hackers are said to have stolen R300,000 ($24,000) using phishing scams. Read more

An English man who hacked into more than a dozen businesses, stole payment card information, ran phishing campaigns that spoofed 100 different businesses, sold people’s financial details and published “how to” guides for hackers and fraudsters has been sent to prison. Read more

The Coca-Cola company announced a data breach incident this week after a former employee was found in possession of worker data on a personal hard drive. Read more

Afghan embassy sources told the BBC two staff members and a generic account received alerts from Google this month. Last week Amnesty International detailed attempts to install malware on computers and phones of activists critical of Pakistan’s military. Read more

“An unknown party with access to very large amounts of hashpower is trying to use ‘51% attacks,’” Bitcoin Gold forum poster Mental Nomad announced a week ago, “to perform ‘double spend’ attacks to steal money from Exchanges. Read more

The crime stunned the then-governor of Bangladesh Bank, Atiur Rahman. “It was like a terrorist attack, into the central bank,” he says. “I couldn’t believe it … because nothing like that … ever happened.” Read more

Two months ago, Verge suffered a devastating cyber attack and faced a difficult situation as everyone searched to know more about the hack. Read more

Cybercriminals have hacked and infected at least 500,000 routers as well as storage devices in what is believed to be part of a planned attack on Ukraine by Russia. Read more

The Oklahoma County republicans’ group claims their Facebook page and website may have been hacked. On Sunday, a post was shared on the Oklahoma County Republicans’ Facebook page seemingly comparing Democrats to Nazis. Read more

Michael Thompson Williams is a medical doctor turned international hacker who was on the police wanted list for a very long time, has recently been arrested by the Lagos State Police in Nigeria. Michael boasted of his adventures as a hacker, and he even took a jab at the Nigerian banking system claiming that their