Day: October 10, 2024

MoneyGram says hackers stole customers’ personal information and transaction data

Posted on by Robin Edgar

U.S. money transfer giant MoneyGram has confirmed that hackers stole its customers’ personal information and transaction data during a cyberattack last month. The company said in a statement Monday that an unauthorized third party “accessed and acquired” customer data during the cyberattack on September 20. The cyberattack — the nature of which remains unknown — Read more about MoneyGram says hackers stole customers’ personal information and transaction data[…]

DOJ Reveals Its Plan for Breaking Up Google’s Search Monopoly

Posted on by Robin Edgar

The Department of Justice has laid out its broad-strokes plan for ending Google’s monopoly over internet search after winning its antitrust case against the company in August. The sweeping changes could end Google’s position as the default search engine on billions of devices and require the company to share key information about its search algorithms Read more about DOJ Reveals Its Plan for Breaking Up Google’s Search Monopoly[…]

Chinese 3x ISP hack shows why world is right about security backdoors and politicians and security people who want them are idiots

Posted on by Robin Edgar

It was revealed this weekend that Chinese hackers managed to access systems run by three of the largest internet service providers (ISPs) in the US. What’s notable about the attack is that it compromised security backdoors deliberately created to allow for wiretaps by US law enforcement … […] Apple famously refused the FBI’s request to Read more about Chinese 3x ISP hack shows why world is right about security backdoors and politicians and security people who want them are idiots[…]

Pro-Palistian Hacktivists Claim Responsibility for Taking Down the Internet Archive, piss off pro Palestinians globally

Posted on by Robin Edgar

[…] A pro-Palestenian hacktivist group called SN_BLACKMETA has taken responsibility for the hack on X and Telegram. “They are under attack because the archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of ‘Israel,’” the group said Read more about Pro-Palistian Hacktivists Claim Responsibility for Taking Down the Internet Archive, piss off pro Palestinians globally[…]

Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users

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Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records. News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert created by the hacker, stating that the Internet Archive was breached. Read more about Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users[…]