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It appears that someone has hacked the payment platform used to process tickets for the annual Gathering of the Juggalos festival.

The Gathering of the Juggalos’ Payment Processer Appears to Have Been Hacked, Stealing Ticket Buyers’ Money

By Noor Al-Sibai

Lindsey Graham might have been tricked by hackers who convinced him he was talking to his colleague Chuck Schumer.

Lindsey Graham Says His Phone Was Hacked By Someone Impersonating Chuck Schumer

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of self-described "gay furry" hackers have breached the servers of a far-right media outlet over its transphobic rhetoric.

Gay Furry Hackers Attack Right-Wing News Outlet

By Noor Al-Sibai

A resourceful hacker cloned the voice of LastPass' CEO to try to dupe one of its employees — but they were not successful.

Artificial Intelligence

Hackers Voice Cloned the CEO of LastPass for Attack

By Noor Al-Sibai

White hat hackers discovered a vulnerability with hotel room keycards over a year ago — but for the most part, it hasn't been fixed.

Android Phones Can Open Almost Any Hotel Room Door, Hackers Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

Be careful what you tell AI chatbots, because apparently it's very easy for hackers to figure out your prompts.

Hackers Can Spy on Your Chats With Almost Any AI, Experts Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

A gigantic trove of passwords has been released by bad actors, and there's a very good chance that yours is on there.

Massive Release of Breached Passwords Likely Includes Yours

By Noor Al-Sibai

The "highly motivated" 18-year-old hacker who leaked GTA VI footage will stay in a secure hospital unless he is deemed no longer a threat.

GTA 6 Hacker Committed to Hospital Indefinitely After Vowing to Strike Again

By Frank Landymore

All it allegedly took for cyberattackers to hack MGM Grand casino servers was a LinkedIn scroll and a phone call.

Casinos Shut Down Amid Hacker Intrusions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Def Con hosted a contest to identify software vulnerabilities of chatbots like Google's Bard or OpenAI's ChatGPT.

The Most Fearsome Hackers Just Went Ham on ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

Security researchers say they can hack a card shuffling machine widely used by casinos to show the hands of other players.

Hackers Gain Control of Casino Card Shuffling Machine for Godlike Control Over Games

By Frank Landymore

It appears that hackers have compromised the University of Arizona's website and posted a bunch of stuff a Southeast Asian online casino.

Someone Has Apparently Hacked the University of Arizona’s Website

By Noor Al-Sibai

The hackers that stole hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto from the FTX exchange are now laundering that money into Bitcoin.

Someone’s Converting Millions of the Stolen FTX Funds Into Bitcoin

By Noor Al-Sibai

Unidentified hackers have stolen the health records of millions of customers of Australian health insurer Medibank, releasing them on the dark web.

Insurance Company Refuses to Pay Ransom, So Hackers Start Releasing Health Records of Up To 10 Million People

By Frank Landymore

Hackers gained access to Apple News push notifications via a business magazine — and sent out a trollish, racist push notification that's as juvenile as it is offensive.

Hackers Send “Incredibly Offensive” Alert to Apple News Users

By Noor Al-Sibai

The hacking collective Anonymous is targeting the Iranian government amid widespread citizen protests sparked by the alleged murder of Mahsa Amini.

Anonymous Hacks Iran After Woman Allegedly Killed by “Morality Police”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

When a self-proclaimed hacker announced that it had breached Uber's security, some other ride-sharing company's employees seemed to think it was a joke.

Uber Hack Was So Huge Employees Thought It Was a Prank

By Noor Al-Sibai

The popular parent-teacher app Seesaw was hacked, and bad actors sent a horribly explicit, NSFW meme to unassuming users.

Parent-Teacher Messaging App Hacked to Send Mom and Dad Horrifying Images

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hackers are using James Webb Space Telescope image files to spread malware on Windows computers, according to cybersecurity firm Securonix.

Devious Hackers Are Hiding Malware in a James Webb Image

By Victor Tangermann

A cryptocurrency company is offering a bounty of up to $19 million to its "white hat hacker friends" after hackers made off with hundreds of millions.

Crypto Company Offers Massive Bounty to “White Hat Hackers” After Giant Heist

By Noor Al-Sibai

Hackers are using never-before-seen methods to bypass email security measures to read and download messages and attachments.

North Korean Hackers Are Reportedly Going After Gmail Accounts

By Noor Al-Sibai

Hackers were able to exploit a basic flaw in crypto bridge Nomad to rob the platform of roughly $190 million in user investments.

Hackers Loot Blockchain Bridge for Millions In “Frenzied Free For All”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A gaggle of hackers has decided to take the US Supreme Court's sudden and devastating reversal of landmark decision Roe vs. Wade into their own hands.

Hackers Declare War on Anti-Abortion States

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After selling an NFT for a cool $69.3 million (nice) last year, digital artist Beeple has fallen victim to hackers.

The Most Famous NFT Artist Got Hacked, Ripping Off His Followers

By Noor Al-Sibai

A security researcher has demonstrated how easy it is to trick a Tesla into thinking its owner is nearby, thereby potentially giving hackers a way inside.

Hacker Shows Off Cool Trick for Stealing Teslas

By Victor Tangermann

Russian news outlets are accusing Ukrainian IT hackers of DDoS attacks on their government alcohol sales servers. Is it true?

Ukrainian Hackers Allegedly Cut Off Russian Soldiers’ Beloved Vodka Supply

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A hacker called Los Pelaos posted bizarre video to Justin Bieber, Travis Scott, Taylor Swift and other official celebrity YouTube acconts for Paco Sanz.

A Hacker Just Stole Justin Bieber’s YouTube Channel and Uploaded Something Truly Bizarre

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Home security camera manufacturer Wyze kept a vulnerability a secret for three years and didn't let the public know hackers were watching their videos.

Robots and Machines

Home Security Camera Maker Allegedly Hid for Years That Hackers Could Watch Your Most Intimate Moments

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Does one need any more proof that indie sleaze is back in vogue?

Grimes Says She Got Hackers to Shut Down a Blog She Didn’t Like

By Noor Al-Sibai

An "IT army" is amassing on popular messaging platform Telegram, volunteers determined to take down the government of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

300,000 Volunteer “Hackers” Are Attacking Russian Computer Systems

By Victor Tangermann

After declaring "cyber war against the Russian government" last week, famed Guy Fawkes mask-themed hacker group Anonymous is hacking Russian TV services.

Anonymous Says It’s Hacking Entire Russian Television Channels Now

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers Steal $2.2 Million Worth of NFTs From Art Collector

Hackers Steal $2.2 Million Worth of NFTs From Art Collector

By Tony Ho Tran

Hackers targeted one of the largest cream cheese manufacturers in the United States and the results have been a schmear nightmare.

Hackers Are The Reason There’s Not Enough Cream Cheese Right Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

Hackers have stolen almost $200 million from the BitMart cryptocurrency exchange, the latest in a long line of heists, headaches, and heartbreak for those who invest and trade in crypto.

Hackers Just Stole Nearly $200 Million from a Crypto Exchange, in the Second Heist in Two Weeks

By Noor Al-Sibai

Dozens of workers have reported anti-work manifestos randomly printing out in their company's receipt printers due to a pro-labor hacker.

Robots and Machines

Hackers Are Spamming Companies’ Receipt Printers with Anti-Work Manifestos

By Tony Ho Tran

A 14-year-old high school student and white hat hacker rickrolled their entire school district by hacking into the school's internet-connected devices.

Teen Hacks School Computer System, Rickrolls Entire School District

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook is down. Which means misinformation about the cause of the outage has hit Twitter hard, including dubious reports of a Facebook leak.

Fact Check: Is Facebook Down Because 1.5 Billion Users’ Data Was Stolen?

By Victor Tangermann

A pseudonymous hacker named MG is selling a USB cable that contains a tiny computer to capture and transmit every single key you type.

New USB Cable Contains Tiny Computer That Spies on Everything You Type

By Dan Robitzski

A top Catholic official resigned on Thursday after hackers revealed that he frequented gay bars and used Grindr, raising questions about digital privacy.

Science & Energy

Top Catholic Bishop Resigns After Hackers Expose That He Was on Grindr

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn't afraid of Anonymous — or, at least, of folks on the internet who claim to be associated with the hacktivist organization.

Elon Musk Mocks “Anonymous” For Threatening Him

By Victor Tangermann

The US Department of Justice is prioritizing its investigations into ransomware attacks that have ground several industries in the country to a halt.

US Authorities Start Treating Ransomware Hacks Like Terrorism

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers managed to force the shutdown of all the US-based beef plants of the world's largest meat producer JBS SA, according to Bloomberg.

Hackers Shut Down Almost a Quarter of the US Beef Supply

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers in China are recording sex tapes marketed as "home videos" from people's home security cameras. They claim to have thousands and thousands of them.

Science & Energy

Hackers Are Stealing Sex Vids From Home Security Systems and Selling Them

By Dan Robitzski

Beer giant Molson Coors filed a report with the SEC revealing that it's the victim of a hack that seems to have brought beer production to a stop.

Science & Energy

Hackers Bring Beer Production To a Halt

By Dan Robitzski

The massive, almost-certainly-Russian hack on the U.S. fedearl government compromised high-level networks used by the Treasury Department.

Science & Energy

Hackers Stole Top Officials’ Emails, Government Admits

By Dan Robitzski

A massive hack on U.S. infrastructure and federal agencies, likely perpetrated by Russia, targeted nuclear weapon facilities.

Science & Energy

Hackers Reportedly Targeted US Nuclear Weapons Facilities

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers pilfered $2.3 million from Trumps re-election campaign by sending it fake invoices supposedly from vendors the Wisconsin GOP worked with.

Science & Energy

Hackers Siphoned $2.3 Million From Trump’s Campaign

By Dan Robitzski

US prosecutors have charged six Russian intelligence officers for being involved in several major cyberattacks, including disrupting the 2018 Olympic Games.

US Indicts Russia for Some of the Biggest Cyberattacks in Recent History

By Victor Tangermann

UK authorities issued a warning on Thursday, claiming that Russian hackers with ties to the Kremlin have been targeting coronavirus vaccine research.

State-Backed Russian Hackers Are Targeting Coronavirus Vaccine Research

By Victor Tangermann

Google's security team confirmed that both the Trump and Biden campaigns were targeted by foreign hackers, with different countries targeting each.

Google: Foreign Hackers Targeting Both Trump and Biden Campaigns

By Dan Robitzski

Zoom, the increasingly-popular video conferencing program, has extremely flawed cybersecurity in place. Companies like SpaceX have already banned it.

Science & Energy

Experts Warn That Hackers Can Use Zoom to Take Over Your Computer

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers are creating their own coronavirus maps to infect users with malware, stealing sensitive data including credit card numbers in the process.

Hackers Are Using Coronavirus Maps to Spread Malware

By Victor Tangermann

New Orleans is the latest city to be targeted by ransomware hackers, but after a weekend-long emergency response, it seems to be back to normal.

New Orleans Declares State of Emergency Due to Hackers

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers stole the personal data of women who bought plus-size clothing, selling the records to online advertisers who can now target the victims.

Science & Energy

Hackers Stole, Sold Data of Women Who Bought Plus-Sized Clothes

By Dan Robitzski

After denying reports of a system malware infection Tuesday, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) admitted that its plants had been hacked.

Someone Hacked India’s Nuclear Power Plants

By Victor Tangermann

The New York Times (NYT) fired its Senior Director of Information Security and eliminated the position, leaving reporters to defend themselves from hackers.

The NYT Fired the Person Who Protects Its Reporters From Hackers

By Dan Robitzski

Contrary to previous reports, hackers are stealing from more ATMs in more countries around the world than ever with jackpotting attacks.

Robots and Machines

This Malware Makes ATMs Spit Out All Their Money

By Dan Robitzski

After hackers revealed flaws in the F-15's cybersecurity, the Air Force plans to invite white hat hackers to probe an active satellite for vulnerabilities.

The Air Force Is Inviting Hackers to Breach a Satellite

By Dan Robitzski

A cybersecurity expert found that smart speakers and laptops could be controlled by hackers to blast out inaudible, deafening frequencies of sound.

Robots and Machines

Hackers Can Hijack Your Speakers to Play Deafening Noises

By Dan Robitzski

A Bulgarian hacker took control of the country's tax agency and also hijacked the sprinkler system outside of Parliament.

Hackers Seize Control of Bulgarian Tax Agency, Sprinkler System

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers hijacked critical computer networks in Riviera Beach, Florida. Without another option, the city paid a $600,000 ransom in Bitcoin.

Science & Energy

Florida City Pays Hackers $600,000 to Restore Hijacked Network

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers from Xenotime, which previously took down a Saudi oil plant, are now attempting to breach American power plants with their malware Triton.

Hackers Have Spent Months Trying to Breach America’s Power Plants

By Dan Robitzski

Using a ransomware called RobinHood, cybercriminals have seized control of about 10,000 of Baltimore's computers, crippling its government.

Cybercriminals Are Holding an Entire US City Hostage

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Military Is Hiring Hackers to Kill Small Drones

The U.S. Military Is Hiring Hackers to Kill Small Drones

By Dan Robitzski