While any financial institution is subject to cybersecurity issues,
any news of hacking can lead to drops in the price of bitcoin.
This was compounded by
news of the hack at the Texas water plant, where on 20 November a hacker named «prof» gained access to the plant's systems using a three - character default password on an internet - accessed SCADA made by Siemens of Germany.
A few days later, the blogosphere erupted with
news of the hack of some 1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, posted on The Air Vent, a skeptic blog.
During the week of October 5th through the 11th — right as
the news of the hack came out — the percentage of U.S. monthly active users who opened the Snapchat app in a given week was still quite high, which indicates strong, ongoing regular engagement.
News of the hack came as the NiceHash website experienced a long period of downtime, with many people reporting that their wallets had been emptied.
Not exact matches
The major newspapers and
news services
of the world have been
hacked by politically motivated armies
of the virtual universe with increasing frequency.
Of course, you can use conventional Facebook news feed hacks to mitigate a small extent of the loss, but in order to survive, we're going to need to make much bigger change
Of course, you can use conventional Facebook
news feed
hacks to mitigate a small extent
of the loss, but in order to survive, we're going to need to make much bigger change
of the loss, but in order to survive, we're going to need to make much bigger changes.
Industry watchers have speculated that the deal could face trouble because
of news in recent weeks that Yahoo user credentials had been
hacked and that the company had scanned emails for U.S. intelligence.
The grim outlook follows
news that millions
of Yahoo account credentials were
hacked and that Yahoo had been scanning emails for U.S. intelligence agencies.
After allegations
of phone
hacking, fraud and general nastiness surfaced at its highly - profitable
News of the World newspaper, the company decided that the best way to starve the scandal
of oxygen was to shutter the 168 - year - old muckraking juggernaut.
U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled expanded criminal charges against three men in connection with a massive 2014 cyberattack against JPMorgan Chase & Co and the
hacking of several other major financial companies and financial
news publishers.
According to this theory, the family didn't want even the slightest hint
of impropriety to affect the Sky bid — especially when there is enough attention already on the Murdochs» history with
News of the World and the
hacking of private telephone accounts, an affair that caused them to drop an earlier bid for the company in 2011.
In 2012, for example, security researchers showed that they could
hack and gain control
of certain Samsung Smart TVs, according to a report by tech
news site Ars Technica.
There's been no shortage
of high - profile
hacks over the last few years — think Target, Sony and Ashley Madison — but one sector that hasn't made as much
news for breaches is financial.
Earlier in February, a top aide
of Macron's also accused Russia
of hacking attempts and spreading fake information about him in Kremlin - backed
news outlets.
Senator Ben Sasse told Fortune via email that the latest
news «is the clearest sign yet that the administration still acts like the OPM
hack is a PR crisis instead
of a national security threat.
«Investigators so far believe that Russian intelligence is likely behind the attacks and that Russian hackers are targeting
news organizations as part
of a broader series
of hacks that also have focused on Democratic Party organizations, the officials said,» CNN reported.
Family ties frayed in 2012 when Rupert's daughter Elisabeth, who chairs London - based TV production company Shine Limited, spoke disapprovingly
of News Corp.'s handling
of the
hacking scandal while delivering an address in Scotland known as the MacTaggart Lecture.
A new report from NBC
News said Mueller was scrutinizing what Trump knew about the Russian - backed campaign to
hack into the Democratic National Committee in the summer
of 2016, and whether Trump had any role in the radical pro-transparency group WikiLeaks» subsequent dissemination
of the stolen emails.
Less than an hour after
news site The Intercept published a report on Monday detailing Russian
hacking related to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the U.S. Justice Department said federal investigators had arrested someone suspected
of leaking classified information to the media.
When the 81 - year - old head
of News Corp. took to Twitter in January, many assumed he was trying to soften his image following the
News of the World phone
hacking scandal.
Windows consumers woke up on Saturday to some good
news: Microsoft says it has already patched a series
of potentially catastrophic
hacks, published on Good Friday by the hacker group known as the Shadow Brokers.
The younger son
of the media tycoon stepped down as the chairman
of the - then BSkyB in 2012, forced out by his links to a scandal at the family's now - defunct
News of the World newspaper which, among many other ethical outrages,
hacked a murdered schoolgirl's phone in a search for its next story on the case, temporarily misleading the police and the girl's family into thinking she was still alive.
James Murdoch's reputation was badly tarnished by the phone -
hacking scandal at
News Corp.'s
News of the World paper.
Ensuring that files arrive at the intended destination securely and without incident will never create the level
of excitement generated by the
news of celebrity
hacks.
Coulson quit as editor
of News of the World after a reporter and a private investigator were jailed in 2007 for
hacking into the voice mail messages
of royal aides.
It's now widely known that journalists at one
of its publications,
News of the World,
hacked thousands
of voicemails, bringing the entire company (and its controlling family) into disrepute.
The scandal exploded collapsed this week after it was reported that the
News of the World had
hacked the mobile phone
of 13 - year - old murder victim Milly Dowler in 2002 while her family and police were desperately searching for her.
On Thursday, police arrested Neil Wallis, former deputy editor and then executive editor
of News of the World, in the investigation
of phone
hacking.
That was Murdoch, age 80, before a U.K. House
of Commons committee in July, being grilled alongside his son James about what they knew about
News Corp.'s phone -
hacking scandal.
In the United States, meanwhile, the Federal Bureau
of Investigation opened an investigation into claims that
News Corp. journalists may have sought to
hack into the phones
of Sept. 11 victims in its quest for sensational scoops.
Brooks was editor
of the
News of the World tabloid between 2000 and 2003, including the time when the paper's employees allegedly
hacked into the telephone
of 13 - year - old murder victim Milly Dowler when police were searching for her.
The report said that while Russian operatives did not change vote tallies, Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered an elaborate effort to propel Trump to the presidency — not only via
hacking but also through the dissemination
of «fake
news» aimed at undermining Clinton and boosting Trump.
After the
news of the first
hack broke, Verizon said it would re-evaluate its Yahoo deal and in a Wednesday statement said it will review the «new development before reaching any final conclusions.»
News of the additional
hack further jeopardizes Yahoo's plans to fall into Verizon's arms.
Just as with other recent large - scale data manipulations, from the recent Strava app fiasco to the widescale distribution and spread
of fake
news on social media, Cambridge Analytica didn't «
hack» our internet usage and our Facebook information so much as exploit the way the system was naturally designed to work.
Sean Ellis, CEO
of GrowthHackers, and Morgan Brown, COO
of Inman
News, launched a new book today called
Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest - Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success, from Crown Business.
This announcement comes just days after the
news that the agency's EDGAR filing system was the target
of a 2016
hack.
It seems that every other month, there is some
news of a major
hack involving a Bitcoin exchange.
And Max Mosley, the former head
of Formula One who successfully brought a series
of suits against
News of the World for publishing pictures
of him involved in an orgy, later funded a number
of lawsuits against the same tabloid by people who said its journalists had
hacked their phones.
The security
of blockchain technology should not be confused with
news about
hacks, such as those carried out on cryptocurrency exchanges.
The
news comes shortly after Binance announced a $ 250,000 equivalent bounty to anyone who supplies information that leads to the legal arrest
of the hackers involved in the attempted
hacking incident on its platform on March 7.
Side note: Most
of the
news stories about Bitcoin getting «
hacked» are false.
More recently, it was the release
of thousands
of hacked emails from the DNC and John Podesta, along with the allegations
of Russian
hacking, that has led the
news cycle.
The
news comes as exchanges in Japan more widely are taking steps to restore public confidence in the industry following a
hack in January that exploited some $ 500 million - worth
of NEM tokens from the Coincheck exchange.
A statement announcing Riyad Mahrez's retirement from football was a result
of his Facebook account being
hacked, Sky Sports
News understands.
A few weeks ago I was asked by Lindsey Mastis
of WFLA
News Channel 8 to help with a series on Life
Hacks for Mom.
For instance, you could use the same basic baskets for Easter and Halloween candy collection, or more elaborately repurpose Easter baskets into trick - or - treating buckets, as one woman commenting over at the Yahoo!
News version
of my Halloween
hacks article did when her children were younger.
The prime minister said he had decided to give the former
News of the World editor, who had edited the tabloid at the time when royal editor Clive Goodman was jailed for phone -
hacking, a «second chance» because he had «done the honourable thing» by resigning.
Later that day the Guardian broke the story that Milly Dowler's phone was allegedly
hacked by an investigator working for the
News of the World in 2002.