by ray | Dec 30, 2022 | Security Breach
Nickolas Sharp, a former employee of networking device maker Ubiquiti, was arrested and charged today with data theft and attempting to extort his employer while posing as a whistleblower and an anonymous hacker. “As alleged, Nickolas Sharp exploited his access...
by ray | Dec 30, 2022 | Security Breach
The Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch has reportedly suffered a massive data leak, which has disclosed confidential company information, as well as streamers’ earnings, with more than 100GB of data posted to the internet on Wednesday. The documents appear to...
by ray | Jun 23, 2022 | Security Breach
The Russia-linked hackers behind the cyberattack on SolarWinds SWI 0.45%▲ have returned, launching a phishing attack targeting approximately 3,000 email accounts belonging to workers at more than 150 organizations, Microsoft MSFT 2.26%▲ said late Thursday. The attack...
by ray | Jun 23, 2022 | Security Breach
Meatpacker JBS JBSAY -1.87%▼ SA was hit by a ransomware attack that took a big chunk of U.S. beef-and-pork processing offline, sending buyers scrambling for alternatives and raising pressure on meat supplies. The attack ratcheted up pressure on...
by ray | Jan 19, 2022 | Security Breach
Suspected Russian hackers gained access to email accounts belonging to the Trump administration’s head of the Department of Homeland Security and members of the department’s cybersecurity staff whose jobs included hunting threats from foreign countries, The Associated...
by ray | Jan 19, 2022 | Security Breach
A cyberattack on Microsoft Corp.’s MSFT -2.43% Exchange email software is believed to have infected tens of thousands of businesses, government offices and schools in the U.S., according to people briefed on the matter. Many of those victims of the attack, which...
