Theft in cybersecurity covers stolen data, credentials, devices, and funds, often creating risks of unauthorized access, fraud, and privacy loss.
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Unauthorized taking or copying of information, credentials, intellectual property, or digital assets is cyber theft. News under this tag may involve stolen passwords, payment data, personal information, source code, cloud tokens, cryptocurrency, or sensitive business files. Theft can result from phishing, malware, compromised accounts, insider access, exposed storage, or the loss of an unencrypted device; the relevant issue is the unauthorized acquisition or control of an asset, whether or not the attacker also alters systems.
Security teams should identify where valuable data and credentials are stored, restrict access by role, require strong authentication, encrypt data at rest and in transit, and monitor unusual downloads or transfers. Vulnerability management matters when flaws expose databases, endpoints, or cloud services to unauthorized retrieval. After suspected theft, preserving logs, revoking tokens and credentials, determining what was accessed or copied, and assessing privacy or notification obligations are central to containing the incident and measuring its impact.
Moldovan national Sandu Boris Diaconu has been sentenced to 42 months in prison for operating E-Root, a major online marketplace that sold access to hacked computers worldwide. [...]
Uncle Sam can use this snooping tool, too, but that's beside the point There's another Chinese-manufactured product – joining the likes of TikTok, cars and semiconductors – that poses a national security risk to Americans: electronic locks, such as those used in safes.…
SIM swappers have adapted their attacks to steal a target's phone number by porting it into a new eSIM card, a rewritable SIM chip present on many recent smartphone models. [...]
SIM swappers have adapted their attacks to steal a target's phone number from an eSIM card, a rewritable SIM chip present on many recent smartphone models. [...]
Services slowly coming back online but providers still struggling Change Healthcare is being investigated over the alleged 6 TB data theft by the ALPHV ransomware group as it continues recovery efforts.…
Meta is suing one of its former executives for stealing sensitive documents before leaving the company
Akira ransomware crooks brag of swiping thousands of ID documents during break-in Over the next few weeks, Nissan Oceania will make contact with around 100,000 people in Australia and New Zealand whose data was pilfered in a December 2023 attack on its systems – perhaps by the Akira ransomware gang.…
Akira ransomware crooks brag of stealing thousands of ID documents during break-in Over the next few weeks, Nissan Oceania will make contact with around 100,000 people in Australia and New Zealand whose data was pilfered in a December 2023 attack on its systems – perhaps by the Akira ransomware gang.…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is investigating whether protected health information was stolen in a ransomware attack that hit UnitedHealthcare Group (UHG) subsidiary Optum, which operates the Change Healthcare platform, in late February. [...]
27,000 individuals had data stolen, which for some included names and social security numbers Stanford University says the cybersecurity incident it dealt with last year was indeed ransomware, which it failed to spot for more than four months.…
The vulnerabilities found in ChatGPT plugins — since remediated — heighten the risk of proprietary information being stolen and the threat of account takeover attacks.
Exec accused of using own work PC to swipe confidential AI and staffing docs for stealth cloud startup An ex-Meta veep has been sued by his former bosses for "brazenly disloyal and dishonest conduct" – and by that, they mean he allegedly stole confidential documents to help him build and recruit colleagues for an AI cloud startup. …
Stanford University says the personal information of 27,000 individuals was stolen in a ransomware attack impacting its Department of Public Safety (SUDPS) network. [...]
Acer Philippines confirmed that employee data was stolen in an attack on a third-party vendor who manages the company's employee attendance data after a threat actor leaked the data on a hacking forum. [...]
Three-quarters of cyber-incidents Sophos responded to involved small businesses in 2023, with attackers’ main goal being data theft
Threat hunters have discovered a set of seven packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are designed to steal BIP39 mnemonic phrases used for recovering private keys of a cryptocurrency wallet
Okta denies that its company data was leaked after a threat actor shared files allegedly stolen during an October 2023 cyberattack on a hacker forum. [...]
New York-based securities lending platform EquiLend Holdings confirmed in data breach notification letters sent to employees that their data was stolen in a January ransomware attack. [...]
Threat group APT29 is using secrets stolen in an earlier attack to compromise Microsoft’s internal systems