U.S. authorities charged 32 defendants on Tuesday with stealing non-public information about corporate earnings to make more than $100m in a case of hacking for trading advantage that officials called unprecedented in scope.
And you might be one of 'em!
1,800 Minecraft accounts have been compromised, prompting users to change their passwords.
A group of hackers who may have had a hand in taking both Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox offline on Christmas day appear to have released a repository containing 13,000 user passwords and credit cards.
JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said the biggest U.S. bank will probably double its $250 million annual computer-security budget within the next five years.
Europol is warning that criminal hackers are targeting global banks, The London Evening Standard reports, aiming to steal as much as $1 billion.
President Obama and his top national security advisers began receiving periodic briefings on the huge cyberattack at JPMorgan Chase and other financial institutions this summer, part of a new effort to keep security officials as updated on major cyberattacks as they are on Russian incursions into Ukraine or attacks by the Islamic State.
U.S. authorities charged 32 defendants on Tuesday with stealing non-public information about corporate earnings to make more than $100m in a case of hacking for trading advantage that officials called unprecedented in scope.
