Hacking News

ZenCash, a privacy coin and fork of ZClassic, which is itself a fork of ZCash, a privacy coin once recommended by Edward Snowdon, has been hacked. Read more

Hacking IoT baby monitor cameras may not be high on the priority list for most attackers, but that doesn’t mean someone is not getting off on remotely spying on families. That is a lesson learned the hard way by a 24-year-old South Carolina mom who awoke to the baby monitor camera pointed at her. Read

MyHeritage, an Israeli DNA, and genealogy website has suffered a massive data breach in which email accounts and hashed passwords of 92 million users (92,283,889) who signed up to the service up to October 26, 2017, have been stolen. Read more

The Minneapolis-based Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant chain said its Twitter account had been hacked, with pranksters leaving crude comments that were briefly visible before being deleted. Read more

Fernando Penedo knew he had enough money for some ice cream on a hot day, so it took him by surprise when his transaction was denied. His girlfriend covered the cost of the cones — and then Penedo found out his bank account was essentially drained. Read more

The bank accounts of 90,000 customers have been compromised. The two large Canadian banks hacked are Bank of Montreal and Simplii Financial. The Bank of Montreal released a press release on the 27th of May 2018, regarding the matter. Read more

Ticketfly, the indie-focused ticketing service that last year was purchased by Eventbrite, has fallen victim to what it describes as a “cyber incident” and has temporarily shut itself down. Read more

CIBC owned Simplii Financial was the first to announce on Monday that hackers had accessed and stolen the personal information of 40,000 customers. Later the same day the Bank of Montreal announced it also had had its security breached by hackers who had gotten the personal information of 50,000 customers. Read more

Taylor, a startup application that wanted to bridge and link cryptocurrency exchanges with mobile technology by creating a trading application has suffered a major cyber attack. Read more

The Bank Of Montreal claimed on Monday it was contacted by cyber criminals who claimed that they were in possession of financial and personal information of a number of the bank’s customers. Read more