security breach

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2020
Nintendo admitted that hackers have breached 300,000 accounts

Japanese gaming giant Nintendo has confirmed that hackers have breached 300,000 accounts since early April, financial data were not exposed. The Japanese video game giant Nintendo has admitted that threat actors have breached 300,000 accounts since early April. The hackers have gained access to personal information, including birthday and email address, but financial data were […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2019
FBI informed software giant Citrix of a security breach

The American multinational software company Citrix disclosed a security breach, according to the firm an international cyber criminals gang gained access to its internal network. The American multinational software company Citrix is the last victim of a security breach, according to the company an international cyber criminal gang gained access to its internal network, Hackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2018
An Australian schoolboy hacked into Apple Servers and stole 90GB of secure files

According to Australian media, a teen hacker broke into Apple mainframe and downloaded 90GB of secure files. He dreams to work for the Tech Giant. I believe it is time for Apple to hire an Australian 16-year old schoolboy who hacked its computer systems. Yes, it is not a joke, according to Australian media the teen […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2018
Hackers steal $13.5 Million from Israeli Bancor exchange

The Israeli-based decentralized cryptocurrency Bancor exchange is the last victim of a security breach in the cryptocurrency industry. According to a statement published by the Bancor exchange,  an unknown hacker has stolen roughly $13.5 million worth of cryptocurrency. The security breach occurred on July 9, 2018 at 00:00 UTC, the attackers gained access to one […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2018
Hundreds of Tim Hortons outlets across Canada closed after malware attack

Tim Hortons restaurants across Canada have been hit by a computer malware that forced some locations to shut down over the past week. When dealing with cyber threats for the retail sector, Target in most prominent case of potential damages from a cyber attack. Today I want to report you the case of a malware-based […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2018
Japan’s Financial Services Agency raided the Coincheck headquarters in Tokyo after the hack

  Cryptocurrencies are in the middle of a Tempest, on Thursday India announced it would adopt measures to prevent the use of virtual currencies in the country, the value of Bitcoin dropped below $9,000 for the first time since November. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in his annual budget, explained its government would “take all measures to eliminate use […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2018
Japan-based digital exchange Coincheck to refund to customers after cyberheist

Coincheck announced it will refund about $400 million to 260,000 customers after the hack, the company will use its own funds. On Friday the news of the hack of the Japan-based digital exchange Coincheck caused the drop in the value of the major cryptocurrencies, the incident had a significant impact on the NEM value that dropped more than […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2018
Download URLs for two packages of the phpBB forum software were compromised

Hacker compromised the download URLs of the popular phpBB forum software, for around three hours they were delivering infected versions of legitimate files. The popular phpBB free and open source forum software has been compromised by an unknown hacker. According to a security advisory released by the phpBB maintainers, the attacker has compromised download URLs for two […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2018
Cryptocurrencies Black Friday – Japan-based digital exchange Coincheck hacked

It is a black Friday for cryptocurrencies, after the news of the hack of the Japan-based digital exchange Coincheck the value of major cryptocurrencies dropped. It is a black Friday for cryptocurrencies, the news of the hack of the Japan-based digital exchange Coincheck had a significant impact on their value. Coincheck was founded in 2012, it is one of […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 29, 2017
Kazakhstan-born Canadian citizen pleads guilty to 2014 Yahoo hack, he admits helping Russian Intelligence

The Kazakhstan-born Canadian citizen Karim Baratov (22) has pleaded guilty to massive 2014 Yahoo hack that affected three billion accounts. The Kazakhstan-born Canadian citizen Karim Baratov (22) (Kay, a.k.a Karim Taloverov, a.k.a Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov), has pleaded guilty to massive 2014 Yahoo data breach that affected three billion accounts. Karim Baratov was arrested in Toronto at his home by the Toronto Police […]