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Hackers took over the crosswalk buttons of downtown intersections in several California cities, to play clips of Elon Musk's cloned voice.

Someone Is Hacking Crosswalk Buttons to Speak in the Voice of Elon Musk Lamenting the Terrible Sadness in His Life

By Victor Tangermann

After downloading an AI tool, a hacker used a virus embedded into the software to upend a Disney employee's life.

Artificial Intelligence

Man’s Entire Life Destroyed After Downloading AI Software

By Frank Landymore

Someone Hacked Paul Krugman’s Twitter and Made an Entire Fake Website for the New York Times to Shill a “New York Times Coin” Scam Coin

Someone Hacked Paul Krugman’s Twitter and Made an Entire Fake Website for the New York Times to Shill a “New York Times Coin” Scam Coin

Hackers accessed user data from almost 7 million people from the commercial genetic testing company 23andMe.

Oops! 23andMe Admits Hackers Stole 7 Million Customers’ Genetic Data

By Sharon Adarlo

An easy to use handheld device called the Flipper Zero can potentially wreak havoc on anything using wireless communications like Bluetooth.

Devious Device Can Crash People’s iPhones Just by Being Near Them

By Frank Landymore

The consumer DNA kit company 23andMe has acknowledged that hackers had gained access to user accounts, but we have lots of questions.

Hackers Selling Stolen Customer DNA Data From 23AndMe

By Noor Al-Sibai

A hack used a crypto exploit to steal $1 million worth of cryptocurrency but self-destructed the contract and lost the currency permanently.

Oops! Hacker Steals $1 Million in Crypto and Then Destroys It

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A massive cache of pirated movies, TV shows, sporting events, video games, and more have begun appearing as publicly-accessible PDFs on USDA.gov.

Someone Appears to Have Hacked the USDA’s Website to Share Pirated Movies

By Tony Ho Tran

A journalist says a hacker was able to access his iPhone after sending him a text message — even though he never clicked on any links.

iPhones Can Apparently Now Be Hacked Just By Texting Them

By Tony Ho Tran

Missouri Governor Mike Parson is furiously trying to prosecute a journalist who exposed and reported a serious cybersecurity flaw in a government website.

Science & Energy

Governor Calls Journalist a “Hacker” for Looking at HTML

By Dan Robitzski

Streaming giant Twitch was hacked this week, resulting in a bunch of background images throughout the site being replaced by pictures of Jeff Bezos.

Twitch Hacked Again, Gets Defaced with Jeff Bezos Pictures

By Tony Ho Tran

A woman's newborn baby died nine months after preventable complications at birth that hospital staff missed due to a ransomware hack.

Hackers Attacked a Hospital and Allegedly Killed a Newborn Baby

By Dan Robitzski

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

Security researchers have figured out a way to hack into a Tesla Model X by overwriting the firmware of the car's key fob via a Bluetooth connection.

New Hack Steals a Tesla in Minutes via Bluetooth

By Victor Tangermann

Someone appears to have hacked the Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, and Kanye West.

Someone Apparently Just Hacked Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos and Kanye West

By Jon Christian

Someone just released a massive amount of data from Iron March, one of the most influential neo-Nazi websites in the world.

Someone Published All the Membership Data From a Neo-Nazi Website

By Kristin Houser