Close to $200 million was stolen from crypto wallets from the BitMart exchange using a stolen private key.

Facebook alleges Alexander Alexandrovich Solonchenko scraped the phone numbers and user IDs from 180 million users and sold them online.

Former President Donald Trump's campaign site was apparently hacked on Monday and replaced with a message from a supporter of the Turkish president.

Some customers are experiencing fraudulent charges on debit cards and spam calls and text messages in the wake of the security breach.

Poly Network has taken the unusual step of embracing the apparent hacker, who stole $610 million in early August.

Getting hacked might seem inevitable, but former NSA hacker David Kennedy says there are steps you can take to prevent it from happening.

DarkSide made headlines for hacking Colonial Pipeline, forcing the major East Coast fuel supplier to suspend operations for several days.

A Florida town of 15,000 people was the target of a cyberattack at the local water treatment plant. The hacker tried to raise the amount of sodium hydroxide, also known as lye, in the water by 11,000%. A plant operator noticed the breach and quickly reversed it; now an investigation […]

A cybersecurity company has found a hacker offering to sell data about the political affiliations of nearly 200 million American voters. Trustwave said the hacker was selling data that included the names, addresses, age, gender, and political affiliation of 186 million voters. They were also selling a larger database with […]

Frank Villani is a 53-year-old information security specialist based in New Jersey who’s worked in information technology for 24 years and IT security for 12 years. He’s a ‘white hat’ hacker, someone who works on the inside of an organisation to protect its internet systems from ‘black hat’ hackers who […]

Frank Villani is a 53-year-old information security specialist based in New Jersey who’s worked in information technology for 24 years and IT security for 12 years. He’s a ‘white hat’ hacker, someone who works on the inside of an organisation to protect its internet systems from ‘black hat’ hackers who […]

Gmail users posing as US Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, chief of US Cyber Command chief the National Security Agency, sent flirty messages to women, according to a CyberScoop report. The actual Nakasone is married with children, a family that he affectionately calls “Team Nakasone.” Catfishing attempts from people posing as […]

A hacker ran a network of bots that compromised more than 10,000 devices for years, seemingly for one purpose: to download anime videos. The botnet, called Cereals, went mostly undetected for 7 years because it served such a narrow purpose and used just a single exploit, according to a report […]

A 22-year-old would-be hacker from London has been sentenced after trying unsuccessfully to blackmail Apple out of $US100,000. In 2017 Kerem Albayrak claimed he would publish the account details of 319 million iCloud accounts if his ransom demands weren’t met. He sent Apple a YouTube video of himself accessing two […]

The Russian hacking group Evil Corp is being sought by various international governments, suspected of a wide range of illegal activities. The UK’s National Crime Agency said the group’s leader, Maksim “Aqua” Yakubets, was charged in connection with “two separate international computer hacking and bank fraud schemes” across the past […]

A Wisconsin couple said a hacker tapped into their smart-home devices and cranked up their heat, talked to them through a camera, and played vulgar music, Fox 6 News reported. In a statement on the incident, Google said Nest was not breached and that it encouraged users to use two-factor […]

A hacker can do everything from hijacking a corporate email account to draining millions of dollars from an online bank account. Though many hackers may have malicious intent, some wear white hats and help companies find security holes and protect sensitive content. Below we explore some of many jobs a […]