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Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, were each sentenced to five and a half years at Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday, 16 July 2026, for the 2024 hack of Transport for London
Meta has revealed that 20,225 Instagram users had their accounts hijacked in a recent incident where attackers used Meta's AI-powered support system to reset passwords. [...]
Also, Taiwan Rail Hack, Massive DDoS Attack and Karakurt Jail SentenceThis week, Microsoft Edge exposed passwords, Taiwan police make arrests in high-speed rail hack and a 2.45 billion-request DDoS attack. A Karakurt negotiator jailed, North Korean IT worker scams led to prison terms and France detained a teen over a government data breach. Another Ivanti zero-day.
Weak and reused credentials continue to plague users and organizations. Learn from Specops software about why passwords are so easy to hack and how organizations can fortify their security efforts. [...]
Transport for London (TfL) says that all staff (roughly 30,000 employees) must attend in-person appointments to verify their identities and reset passwords following a cybersecurity incident disclosed almost two weeks ago. [...]
A Cybernews investigation found that nearly 10 billion unique passwords have been posted on a popular hacking forum, putting users worldwide at risk of account compromises
Pet retail giant PetSmart is warning some customers their passwords were reset due to an ongoing credential stuffing attack attempting to breach accounts. [...]
Hackers are conducting widescale attacks on WordPress sites to inject scripts that force visitors' browsers to bruteforce passwords for other sites. [...]
Bitcoin wallets created between 2011 and 2015 are susceptible to a new kind of exploit called Randstorm that makes it possible to recover passwords and gain unauthorized access to a multitude of wallets spanning several blockchain platforms
Fun technique – but how practical is it? Some smart cookies at institutions in China and Singapore have devised a technique for reading keystrokes and pilfering passwords or passcodes from Wi-Fi-connected mobile devices on public networks, without any hardware hacking.…
[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. pleaded guilty to running LeakedSource[.]com, a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the owner of Defiant Tech, a 32-year-old Ontario man named Jordan Evan Bloom, was hired in late 2014 as a developer for the marital infidelity site AshleyMadison.com. Bloom resigned from AshleyMadison citing health reasons in June 2015 -- less than one month before unidentified hackers stole data on 37 million users -- and launched LeakedSource three months later.
It's not hacking if organizations fail to terminate password access after employees leave.
Dariy Pankov accused of infiltrating systems, selling tool and passwords to other miscreants A Russian national accused of developing the NLBrute brute-force hacking tool has made his first court appearance this week in Florida over accusations that he used the tool to spawn a criminal empire.…
Last month Tech Crunch reported that payment terminal manufacturer Wiseasy had been hacked. Although Wiseasy might not be well known in North America, their Android-based payment terminals are widely used in the Asia Pacific region and hackers managed to steal passwords for 140,000 payment terminals
The threat actor behind the Twilio hack used their access to steal one-time passwords (OTPs) delivered over SMS to from customers of Okta identity and access management company. [...]
The threat actor behind the Twilio hack used their access to steal one-time passwords (OTPs) delivered over SMS to from customers of Okta identity and access management company. [...]
Password security is only as strong as the password itself. Unfortunately, we are often reminded of the danger of weak, reused, and compromised passwords with major cybersecurity breaches that start with stolen credentials. For example, in May 2022, the popular wedding planning site, Zola, was the victim of a significant cybersecurity breach where hackers used an attack known as credential
Heroku has now revealed that the stolen GitHub integration OAuth tokens from last month further led to the compromise of an internal customer database. The Salesforce-owned cloud platform acknowledged the same compromised token was used by attackers to exfiltrate customers' hashed and salted passwords from "a database." [...]
Okta's outsourced provider of support services, Sitel (Sykes) has shared more information this week in response to the leaked documents that detailed the various incident response tasks carried out by Sitel after the Lapsus$ hack. [...]
French video game company Ubisoft on Friday confirmed it was a victim of a "cyber security incident," causing temporary disruptions to its games, systems, and services