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International Hotel Group was hacked according to BBC, Techradar, and a host of other sites. According to officials – a couples hacker group allegedly from Vietnam claimed to hack IHG. in a statement the couple said the following: “Our attack was originally planned to be a ransomware but the company’s IT team kept isolating servers […]
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According to Breitbart, EuroWeekly, and several other news periodicals. The British Army Twitter and Youtube accounts were overrun by cryptocurrency messages including images of billionaire Elon Mus During the hack, the British Army’s Twitter account had its name changed to “Bapesclan” (aka online as Bapes™ – The #1 Metavestor Club in the world) . The British […]
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Panasonic was hit for the second time in 6 months. This time at it’s Canada operation according to Tech Crunch. The cyber attack gang that hit Panasonic is suspected to be the work of the Conti ransomeware group. Panasonic stated “We took immediate action to address the issue with assistance from cybersecurity experts and our […]
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A supplier for Toyotas electronic and plastic parts for car interiors and also parts for Toyota’s hybrid and fuel cell electric vehicles was hacked. This resulted in 14 factories being shut down. According to Reuters “Kojima Industries Corp, which provides plastic parts and electronic components to the automaker, said it had discovered an error at […]
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DC Metropolitan Authority operates transit service in the Washington metropolitan area. Early Monday between 3:30am to 3:45am a series of odd and obscene tweets were posted on the Twitter account belonging to the DC Metro Authority. Normally the DC Metro Authority’s account posts information about the capital area’s metro systems. Once the hack happened the […]
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The San Francisco’s 49ers network was hit with ransomware on Super Bowl Sunday. The cybergang BlackByte allegedly used the ransomware to steal some of the 49ers financial data. BlackByte is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that leases out its ransomware infrastructure to others in return for a percentage of the ransom proceeds. According to ESPN, BlackByte […]
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The International committee of Red Cross was involved in a cyber attack that compromised personal data and confidential information of over 515,000 highly vulnerable people, including those separated from their families due to conflict, migration and disaster, missing persons and their families, and people in detention. The hackers targeted an external company in Switzerland that […]
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According to Bloomberg and India Today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official Twitter account was hacked. During the attack a tweet promoting cryptocurrency had already been shared from the handle and was later deleted. The PMO further said that any tweets sent out by the official handle during that time should be ignored by the public. […]
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Bitmart – A leading cryptocurrency trading firm experienced a large scale data breach resulting in over $100 million dollars in loses. BitMart acknowledged the hack on their website stating “We have identified a large-scale security breach related to one of our ETH hot wallets and one of our BSC hot wallets today. At this moment […]
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Unauthorized third parties exploited a flaw in the company’s 2 factor authentication system which allowed them to gain access to the accounts, and transfer funds to crypto wallets not associated with Coinbase, the company said. In all 6000 customers were effected. The hack occurred between March 2021 and May 20, 2021. Coinbase suspects the hackers […]
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