This is just the last of a long list of incidents of a similar kind
conducted by hackers being able to have access to cryptocurrency accounts and take big amounts of money.
Not exact matches
The operation is
conducted at the request of Pope's superior, Quaker Wells (Gary Oldman), as he's attempting to locate a computer
hacker (Michael Pitt) who's also being sought
by psychotic entrepreneur Xavier Heimdahl (Jordi Mollà, awful as always).
Hackers are
conducting phishing email attacks on World of Warcraft (WoW) gamers using two types of emails to steal login credentials
by making them believe they have won free in - game pets (Battlepaw and Mystic Runesaber) followed
by a link to claim it
by putting Blizzard account login credentials.
Once inside their system, the
hackers set it up as a staging area
by creating repositories for software, creating fake accounts, and
conducting surveillance in order to gather information on the software, credentials, and control processes being used.
A recent survey of 129
hackers conducted by security firm Bitglass found facial recognition was considered the second least effective security tool behind standard passwords (facial recognition was also rated as the worst tool six times more often than fingerprint authentication) so
hackers will be happy to take a crack at Apple's attempt at the authentication method and see if the company can instill some trust in the tool.