Latest Theft news

Mixin Network suspends operations following $200 million hack

Mixin Network, an open-source, peer-to-peer transactional network for digital assets, has announced today on Twitter that deposits and withdrawals are suspended effective immediately due to a $200 million hack the platform suffered on Saturday.
- Bill Toulas
- September 25, 2023
- 09:23 AM
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Hackers steal $53 million worth of cryptocurrency from CoinEx

Global cryptocurrency exchange CoinEX announced that someone hacked its hot wallets and stole large amounts of digital assets that were used to support the platform's operations.
- Bill Toulas
- September 13, 2023
- 10:11 AM
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Crypto casino Stake.com loses $41 million to hot wallet hackers

Online cryptocurrency casino Stake.com announced that its ETH/BSC hot wallets had been compromised to perform unauthorized transactions, with over $40 million in crypto reportedly stolen.
- Bill Toulas
- September 05, 2023
- 02:24 PM
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Lazarus hackers linked to the $35 million Atomic Wallet heist

The notorious North Korean hacking group known as Lazarus has been linked to the recent Atomic Wallet hack, resulting in the theft of over $35 million in crypto.
- Bill Toulas
- June 07, 2023
- 02:16 PM
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Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked

In a 'confidential' email notification sent by Okta and seen by BleepingComputer, the company states that attackers gained access to its GitHub repositories this month and stole the company's source code.
- Ax Sharma
- December 21, 2022
- 01:15 AM
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Police dismantles criminal ring that hacked keyless cars

Authorities from France, Latvia, and Spain arrested 31 suspects believed to be part of a car theft ring that targeted vehicles from two French car manufacturers.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 17, 2022
- 10:52 AM
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Cisco fixes bug allowing RSA private key theft on ASA, FTD devices

Cisco has addressed a high severity vulnerability affecting its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- August 10, 2022
- 01:37 PM
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Mandiant: “No evidence” we were hacked by LockBit ransomware

American cybersecurity firm Mandiant is investigating LockBit ransomware gang's claims that they hacked the company's network and stole data.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 06, 2022
- 03:54 PM
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Crypto robber who lured victims via Snapchat and stole £34,000 jailed

Online crypto scams and ponzi schemes leveraging social media platforms are hardly anything new. But, this gruesome case of a London-based crypto robber transcends the virtual realm and tells a shocking tale of real-life victims from whom the perpetrator successfully stole £34,000.
- Ax Sharma
- May 14, 2022
- 10:02 AM
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Former DHS official charged with stealing govt employees' PII

A former Department of Homeland Security acting inspector general pleaded guilty today to stealing confidential and proprietary software and sensitive databases from the US government containing employees' personal identifying information (PII).
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 14, 2022
- 03:22 PM
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Ransomware gang's script shows exactly the files they're after

A PowerShell script used by the Pysa ransomware operation gives us a sneak peek at the types of data they attempt to steal during a cyberattack.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 24, 2021
- 02:16 PM
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Malicious extension abuses Chrome sync to steal users’ data

The Google Chrome Sync feature can be abused by threat actors to harvest information from compromised computers using maliciously-crafted Chrome browser extensions.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 05, 2021
- 03:14 PM
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Microsoft engineer stole $10M, used colleagues as scapegoats

Volodymyr Kvashuk, a Ukrainian citizen and former Microsoft software engineer, was sentenced to nine years in prison for stealing over $10 million worth of currency stored value (CSV) including gift cards over a span of two years.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 10, 2020
- 12:56 PM
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Largest cruise line operator Carnival confirms ransomware data theft

Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise line operator, has confirmed that the personal information of customers, employees, and ship crews was stolen during an August ransomware attack.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 09, 2020
- 05:31 PM
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Attackers impersonate secure messaging site to steal bitcoins

In what can be described as the case of both cybersquatting and phishing, threat actors have created a site that imitates the legitimate secure note sharing service privnote.com to steal bitcoins.
- Ax Sharma
- June 14, 2020
- 02:02 PM
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