Spanish police have arrested a British national accused of leading an organized cybercrime group that broke into dozens of U.S. companies. The unnamed British national, aged 22, was arrested at Palma airport as he was about to leave the country on a charter flight to Naples, Spanish police confirmed in a press release. In a […]
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Since April, a hacker with a history of selling stolen data has claimed a data breach of billions of records — impacting at least 300 million people — from a U.S. data broker, which would make it one of the largest alleged data breaches of the year. The data, seen by TechCrunch, on its own
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Security researchers say they believe financially motivated cybercriminals have stolen a “significant volume of data” from hundreds of customers hosting their vast banks of data with cloud storage giant Snowflake. Incident response firm Mandiant, which is working with Snowflake to investigate the recent spate of data thefts, said in a blog post Monday that the
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Snowflake’s security problems following a recent spate of customer data thefts are, for want of a better word, snowballing. After Ticketmaster was the first company to link its recent data breach to the cloud data company Snowflake, loan comparison site LendingTree has now confirmed its QuoteWizard subsidiary had data stolen from Snowflake. “We can confirm
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Two senior officials working for anti-terror police in Bangladesh allegedly collected and sold classified and personal information of citizens to criminals on Telegram, TechCrunch has learned. The data allegedly sold included national identity details of citizens, cell phone call records and other “classified secret information,” according to a letter signed by a senior Bangladeshi intelligence
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Cloud data analysis company Snowflake is at the center of a recent spate of alleged data thefts, as its corporate customers scramble to understand if their stores of cloud data have been compromised. The Boston-based data giant helps some of the largest global corporations — including banks, healthcare providers and tech companies — store and
Entertainment giant Live Nation has confirmed its ticketing subsidiary Ticketmaster has been hacked. Live Nation confirmed the data breach in a filing with government regulators late on Friday after the markets closed. In its statement, Live Nation said the breach occurred on May 20, and that a cybercriminal “offered what it alleged to be Company
Last week, an unknown hacker broke into the servers of the U.S.-based stalkerware maker pcTattletale. The hacker then stole and leaked the company’s internal data. They also defaced pcTattletale’s official website with the goal of embarrassing the company. “This took a total of 15 minutes from reading the techcrunch article,” the hackers wrote in the
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Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin confirmed on Friday that it had been the victim of a hack resulting in the theft of 4,502.9 bitcoin, or about $305 million. According to crypto security firm Elliptic, this is the eighth largest crypto theft in history. DMM Bitcoin said it detected “an unauthorized leak of Bitcoin (BTC) from
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Cybersecurity company Check Point says attackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in its enterprise VPN products to break into the corporate networks of its customers. The technology maker hasn’t said yet who is responsible for the cyberattacks or how many of its customers are affected by intrusions linked to the vulnerability, which security researchers say
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