Hacking News

A Chinese-linked cyber-espionage unit has hacked a data center belonging to a Central Asian country and has embedded malicious code on government sites. Read more

A “malicious party” hacked into the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s website but no data was lost or compromised, a spokeswoman for the agency that oversees the state government’s cybersecurity said. Read more

Another day – another breach. This time, the victim is a UK-based retailer service, Dixons Carphone Warehouse. As announced in its official press release, the company faced a massive data breach. This has led to millions of users data being compromised. Read more

A lawsuit filed by former employee Amy Liu this month alleges that Clarifai’s computer systems were compromised by one or more people in Russia, potentially exposing technology used by the US military to an adversary. Read more

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Coinrail reported a hack on its website during the early morning hours of June 10, 2018. The thieves allegedly made off with over $40 million worth of altcoins and assorted tokens. Read more

A personal email account of White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was hacked, according to an email obtained by Buzzfeed via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Read more

Banco de Chile, the country’s biggest bank, was attacked with a disk-wiping malware on hundreds of computers to distract staff while the hackers tried to steal money using the bank’s SWIFT transferring system. Read more

Hackers working for the Chinese government have compromised the systems of a US Navy contractor and stolen large amounts of highly sensitive data relating to undersea warfare which included the blueprints of a supersonic anti-ship missile which is going to be used in U.S submarines by 2020. Read more

Megan Clifford was at work when her phone turned off. Minutes before her phone stopped working on Jan. 8, Clifford received a text message from her cell phone carrier, T-Mobile, saying her online account password was changed and to call the company if she hadn’t made the request. Read more

Data breaches and hacking attempts seem to have become commonplace. We now have news of yet another data breach that has left millions of customers’ data exposed to hackers. Read more