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Bitfinex hacker gets 5 years in prison for 120,000 bitcoin heist
A hacker responsible for stealing 119,754 Bitcoin in a 2016 hack on the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange was sentenced to five years in prison by U.S. authorities. The man, Ilya Lichtenstein, was arrested in February 2022 in Manhattan following a lengthy investigation led by the IRS, HSI, and the FBI, which managed to recover roughly 80% of the stolen cryptocurrency (94,000 Bitcoin)/ At…
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Hacker gets 10 years in prison for extorting US healthcare provider
Robert Purbeck, a 45-year-old man from Idaho, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for hacking at least 19 organizations in the United States, stealing the personal data of more than 132,000 people, and multiple extortion attempts. As showcased in the indictment, prosecutors linked multiple data theft and blackmail incidents to Purbeck (also known online as “Lifelock” and “Studmaster”).…
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The infamous Volt Typhoon hacker group is back
A botnet operated by the Volt Typhoon threat group, used to target critical national infrastructure around the world, has reappeared after being severely disrupted earlier this year, according to a new report. The network of compromised network devices, orchestrated by the Chinese state-affiliated threat collective, consisted of hundreds of US-based small office/home office (SOHO) routers, and was used to attack…
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Amazon confirms employee data compromised amid 2023 MOVEit breach claims – but the hacker behind the leak says a host of other big tech names are also implicated
Amazon has confirmed that a security incident affecting a third-party vendor has exposed employee information. The incident saw data allegedly belonging to employees at a host of major tech firms leaked, with the data believed to have been stolen during the 2023 MOVEit breach. An Amazon spokesperson told TechCrunch its internal systems remain secure, insisting the incident was isolated to…
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Schneider Electric confirms breach after hacker claims to have 40GB of stolen data
Schneider Electric has confirmed it suffered a breach after a hacker claimed to have stolen data from the firm’s Jira server. In a statement provided to ITPro, the firm said it was currently looking into an intrusion on one of its project management platforms. “Schneider Electric is investigating a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to one of our internal project…
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Schneider Electric confirms dev platform breach after hacker steals data
Schneider Electric has confirmed a developer platform was breached after a threat actor claimed to steal 40GB of data from the company’s JIRA server. “Schneider Electric is investigating a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to one of our internal project execution tracking platforms which is hosted within an isolated environment,” Schneider Electric told BleepingComputer. “Our Global Incident Response team has…
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Nokia investigates breach after hacker claims to steal source code
Nokia is investigating whether a third-party vendor was breached after a hacker claimed to be selling the company’s stolen source code. “Nokia is aware of reports that an unauthorized actor has alleged to have gained access to certain third-party contractor data and possibly data of Nokia,” the company told BleepingComputer. “Nokia takes this allegation seriously and we are investigating. To…
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Hacker claims to have data linked to 19 million French mobile and internet customers
Free, the second largest internet service provider (ISP) and telephone operator in France, has recently confirmed it was the victim of a major breach. The company, which is believed to have over 20 million customers, notified France’s cyber agency over the weekend, stating that threat actors targeted a management tool which was used to exfiltrate user data. Free clarified that…
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Cisco takes DevHub portal offline after hacker publishes stolen data
Cisco confirmed today that it took its public DevHub portal offline after a threat actor leaked “non-public” data, but it continues to state that there is no evidence that its systems were breached. “We have determined that the data in question is on a public-facing DevHub environment—a Cisco resource center that enables us to support our community by making available…
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Brazilian police arrested the hacker who stole everyone’s SSN
The Federal Police of Brazil announced the arrest of the hacker linked to a breach that leaked 2.9 billion records that included sensitive personal information, including some Social Security numbers. The data from that hack, which came to light in August, was put for sale on the dark web in April by an entity identifying themselves as USDoD. As pointed…
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