Europol Arrests 26 SIM Swapping Fraudsters For Stealing Over $3 Million

Europol, along with the Spanish and the Romanian national police, has arrested 26 individuals in connection with the theft of over €3.5 million $3.9 million by hijacking people's phone numbers via SIM swapping attacks. The law enforcement agencies arrested 12 and 14 people in Spain and Romania,...

Blockchain Developer Gets Busted After Talk in North Korea

Hacker and Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith was recently arrested by US authorities for speaking at a conference on blockchain technologies...

News Wrap: Emotet's Return, U.S. Vs. Snowden, Physical Pen Testers Arrested

From the re-emergence of an infamous malware, to a new lawsuit against Edward Snowden, Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell and Tara Seals break down this week’s top news. Top stories include: Emotet, the notorious banking trojan, is back after a summer hiatus. The U.S. sued Edward Snowden over h...

IT Firm Manager Arrested in the Biggest Data Breach Case of Ecuador's History

Ecuador officials have arrested the general manager of IT consulting firm Novaestrat after the personal details of almost the entire population of the Republic of Ecuador left exposed online in what seems to be the most significant data breach in the country's history. Personal records of more th...

Authorities arrest culprits for crypto mining at Ukraine nuclear plant

By Sudais Authorities have arrested several people for using a nuclear plant in South Ukraine for illegal crypto mining. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Authorities arrest culprits for crypto mining at Ukraine nuclear plant...

Capital One breach exposes over 100 million credit card applications

Just as we were wrapping up the aftermath of the Equifax breach—how was that already two years ago?—we are confronted with yet another breach of about the same order of magnitude. Capital One was affected by a data breach in March. The hacker gained access to information related to credit card...

Capital One data breach: 106m customers affected; suspected hacker arrested

By Uzair Amir The hacker behind the breach Paige Adele Thompson has been arrested after they bragged about hacking Capital One. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Capital One data breach: 106m customers affected; suspected hacker arrested...

Former AWS Engineer Arrested as Capital One Admits Massive Data Breach

A massive breach of Capital One customer data has hit more than 100 million people in the U.S. and 6 million in Canada. Thanks to a cloud misconfiguration, a hacker was able to access to credit applications, Social Security numbers and bank account numbers in one of the biggest data breaches to...

Capital One Data Breach Affects 106 Million Customers; Hacker Arrested

Another week, another massive data breach. Capital One, the fifth-largest U.S. credit-card issuer and banking institution, has recently suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of more than 100 million credit card applicants in the United States and 6 million in Canada. The data...

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Arrested After Ecuador Withdraws Asylum

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London—that's almost seven years after he took refuge in the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault case. According to a short note released by London's Metropolitan Police Service, Assange was...

2 students arrested for disrupting school WiFi to skip exam

By Waqas Two 14-year old 9th graders have been arrested by the police for disrupting the WiFi system of their school, Secaucus High School, Hudson County in March. According to reports, the students used an especially designed app to make the connection so overloaded with traffic that it became...

Purveyor of Cracked Netflix, Hulu, Spotify Accounts Arrested

A Sydney man has been arrested after allegedly selling hundreds of thousands of compromised account details for subscription streaming services, including for Netflix, Hulu and music streaming service Spotify – raking in about $212,000 $300,000 AUD in profit in the process. The Australian Federal...

Ukrainian Police Arrest 6 Hackers Linked to DDoS and Financial Attacks

Ukrainian Police have this week busted out two separate groups of hackers involved in carrying out DDoS attacks against news agencies and stealing money from Ukrainian citizens, respectively. According to the authorities, the four suspected hackers they arrested last week, all aged from 26 to 30...

How Feds Tracked Down Mail Bomb Suspect Cesar Sayoc

At a press conference Friday, officials detailed how they identified and found Cesar Sayoc, who has been arrested in connection with a series of mail bombs targeting prominent liberals and CNN...

Florida Man Arrested in SIM Swap Conspiracy

Police in Florida have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of being part of a multi-state cyber fraud ring that hijacked mobile phone numbers in online attacks that siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from victims. On July 18, 2018, Pasco County...

Woman charged for hacking & leaking private pictures of Selena Gomez

By Carolina Selena Gomez, a well-known celebrity pop star, is in the news for getting her email hacked that led to the exposure of her personal pictures on the internet. A 21-year old female has been arrested and charged for performing the hacking of Gomez’ email. Susan Atrach from Ridgefield Par...

Rewards Points Targeted by Teens in Hack of 500K Accounts

A pair of Russian teens have been arrested for infiltrating more than a half-million online accounts, in particular targeting services that offer rewards points. Russian authorities at the Ministry of Internal Affairs said in an announcement Wednesday that the duo came to their attention in late...

16 arrested for hacking Internet cafes to mine cryptocurrency

By Waqas The group of hackers mined Siacoin cryptocurrency from hacked computer This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 16 arrested for hacking Internet cafes to mine cryptocurrency...

74 arrested after FBI disrupts International gang of BEC scammers

By Waqas In a joint operation, the FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation, This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 74 arrested after FBI disrupts International gang of BEC scammers...

Man who hacked West Point military academy website arrested from LA

By Waqas A hacker who hacked and defaced more than 11,000 websites This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Man who hacked West Point military academy website arrested from LA...