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Russian Gang Amasses Over a Billion Internet Passwords
August 6th, 2014
A Russian crime ring has amassed the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials, including 1.2 billion user name and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses, security researchers say. The records, discovered by Hold Security, a ...
Tokyo Police to launch Investigation into Missing Mt. Gox Bitcoin
August 4th, 2014
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has launched an official investigation into possible illicit activity surrounding the closure of Japan-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. The news comes roughly five months after the bitcoin exchange reported it lost roughly 744,400 BTC ...
EU court to decide on tax-free trading of bitcoin
July 30th, 2014
Tax-free trading of bitcoin is on legal questioning at the European Union’s top court following Swedish authorities request to extend existing levies to virtual currencies. The EU Court of Justice must decide if transactions between virtual and traditional currencies ...
E.C.B. Says It Has Been Hacked in Apparent Blackmail Attempt
July 24th, 2014
The European Central Bank said on Thursday that hackers had broken into an internal database and stolen information about journalists and others, in what appeared to be part of a blackmail scheme. The central bank said that the information ...
StubHub Defrauded Of $1.6M Worth Of Tickets; 7 People Arrested Worldwide
July 24th, 2014
Seven people linked to an international cybercrime ring were arrested for defrauding online-ticketing company StubHub of about $1.6 million. The operation, which involved police forces from several countries, was tracking the cyber thieves for hacking into the online accounts ...
Bitcoin Protected, VeriCoin Stolen in Latest Exchange Breach
July 15th, 2014
Digital currency exchange platform MintPal has suffered a successful hack attack that resulted in the loss millions of vericoins from its hot wallet. The 13th July attack targeted a vulnerability in the site’s withdrawal system. The hacker, according to ...
Hedge-Fund Hack Part of Bigger Siege: Cyber-Experts
June 23rd, 2014
The attack on a U.S. hedge fund’s network, which a cybersecurity contractor said last week disrupted the firm’s high-speed trading and stole its data, is but one among many. That is the assessment of more than a half-dozen computer ...
Japan not regulating bitcoin, for the moment
June 20th, 2014
Japan’s leading Liberal Democratic Party said it decided against regulating bitcoin for the time being, after the collapse of Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox prompted them to consider more scrutiny of the virtual currency. Mt. Gox, once the world’s ...
eBay makes users change their passwords after hack
May 22nd, 2014
Online marketplace eBay is forcing users to change their passwords after a cyber-attack compromised its systems. The US firm said a database had been hacked between late February and early March, and had contained encrypted passwords and other non-financial ...
Snapchat settles with US regulators for deceiving users
May 9th, 2014
Ephemeral messaging service Snapchat has settled with US regulators over charges it deceived users when it promised their messages would disappear. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Snapchat misled users over data collection and failed to inform them that ...
