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Cyber Crime
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Yahoo hacker involved in 500 million accounts breach jailed for 5 years
The same hacker was once known as “international hacker-for-hire.” Karim Baratov, 23, a Canadian hacker who in November 2017 pleaded…
May 31, 2018
Inmates pirated movies from computers they build with spare parts
Initial investigations showed the same inmates were found hacking prison’s computer system. Last year HackRead reported regarding the…
May 30, 2018
Hackers demand $1m ransom after stealing data from 2 Canadian banks
Hackers have stolen financial data of thousands of customers – Reportedly 50,000 from BMO and 40,000 customers from CIBC have…
May 29, 2018
10 years prison for man who hacked 200 firms & sold data on Dark Web
The hacker also sold drugs on Dark Web and taught others how to carry cyber attacks and scams.…
May 28, 2018
This Chrome extension reveals if your password has been breached
Okta has introduced new password manager PassProtect in its latest, free Google Chrome browser extension. If you think…
May 28, 2018
Man arrested for possession of 58 terabytes of child sexual abuse material
A terabyte is more precisely defined as 1,024 gigabytes (GB).
May 28, 2018
15 years prison for man who hired attackers to DDoS his ex-employer
John Kelsey Gammell, a 46-year-old from New Mexico has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for conducting sustained DDoS…
May 28, 2018
Bitcoin Gold loses over $18 million after hack attack
Hackers are conducting Double Spend attack on cryptocurrency exchanges and the latest victim is Bitcoin Gold. It is claimed that…
May 25, 2018
FBI seizes VPNFilter botnet domain that infected 500,000 routers
It is believed that the botnet was run by infamous Russian hacking group Fancy Bear. The Federal Bureau of…
May 24, 2018
Data of millions of Japanese sold on underground hacking forums
A cybercriminal operating from outside China was found to be selling data of nearly 200 million Japanese users…
May 24, 2018