Hacking News

As the PGA Championship tees off on Thursday morning, a major hacking scandal may drive a wedge in the final major of the golf season. PGA of America computer servers were hacked this week, according to a report from Golfweek. Read more

Reddit on Wednesday reported a data breach. The good news? Nothing too major was likely stolen. The bad news? It involved a two-factor authentication scam. During the mid-June intrusion, the hacker accessed an old backup of Reddit that contained user data such as hashed passwords from 2007. The culprit also viewed logs from Reddit’s “email

UnityPoint Health has revealed that over 1 million of its customers might have had their private health information hacked during a recent email attack. The company says the attack did not electronic medical records or billing information. Letters were sent out to all affected patients. Read more

Rich The Kid’s had a strange day so far when it comes to his social media platform. Earlier in the day, the rapper shared a post that read, “R.I.P Rich The Kid 1992-2018.” The rapper came out after and claimed that he wrote that because he was high. Read more

Inmates in Idaho successfully hacked the software of the prison-issued tablets to issue themselves nearly a quarter of a million dollars in credits on the devices that are often one of their only connections to the outside world. Read more

KICKICO, an initial coin offering (ICO) project launched on top of the Ethereum blockchain protocol, was hacked on July 27, losing more than 70 million KICK worth $7.7 million. Read more

SINGAPORE – The personal details of about 70,000 Securities Investors Association (Singapore) (Sias) members were hacked in 2013, and they were informed about it on Wednesday (July 25). Read more

The security breaches happened between February 18th through March 14th and March 29th through April 16th. June 5th is when forensic investigators determined the breach had occurred. Prior to that there was no detection because the breach – known as a zero-day compromise – used malware that has never been seen before. Read more

On Tuesday morning, Vergara took to Twitter to let fans know now to “answer those idiots.” “Don’t send them any info,” she wrote. “We r after them [sic].” Read more

On June 13, writer-director Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, First Reformed) saw a legit-looking email purporting to be from a European Film Festival in his inbox, and bam. “As soon as I opened it up, I knew that I had been hacked,” he tells THR. Immediately, everyone in his contract list began receiving a plea to