Hacking News

Gray was not only booed off the mound in his start against the Red Sox on Saturday, but he appears to have been the latest victim of a Twitter hack as well. The hacker goes by “caso,” and this isn’t the first Major League player he has hacked on the social media platform. Read more

In its latest update, Binance indirectly expressed concerns over API vulnerabilities. This fits in perfectly with the Syscoin (SYS) API exploitation rumors that may have triggered the unplanned ‘maintenance’. Read more

Palestinian Islamist group Hamas used fake football and dating applications to hack the mobile phones of Israeli soldiers, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has claimed. Read more

Croatian World Cup footballer Dejan Lovren had his social media accounts hacked by a fan living in the Scottish Borders, a court has heard. Some of the Liverpool defender’s family photos and an image of his identity card were found on the computer of Peter Doswell, 22, of Selkirk. Read more

Taipei, July 3 (CNA) The official website of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was hacked Tuesday with the hackers posting phrases about President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) in simplified Chinese characters on the homepage, a party spokesperson said. Read more

The Tasmanian Electoral Commission says an “unknown attacker” has breached a server’s security and downloaded a back-up file containing the names, addresses, emails, and date-of-birth information of electors. Read more

According to a report from Wired, Exactis “had exposed a database that contained close to 340 million individual records on a publicly accessible server” earlier this month. Read more

A data breach at one of Northern Ireland’s largest further education colleges has put the personal and financial data – including bank account numbers and sort codes – of hundreds of staff at risk. Read more

This week we’ve had yet another reminder of the poor state of online security after Adidas admitted its US website had been hacked. In the process, data for millions of consumers was stolen. Read more

Linux distribution Gentoo has had its GitHub mirror broken into and taken over, with GitHub pages changed and ebuilds replaced. In an alert, Gentoo said the attacker gained control of the Github Gentoo organisation at June 28, 20:20 UTC. Read more