April 27, 2016 Dating site that rejects 'ugly' people gets hacked Go ahead, enjoy the schadenfreude: A dating website that excludes unattractive people has been hacked, and the private information of more than a million of its attractive users is now for sale on the dark web.
April 27, 2016 Feds to keep iPhone-hacking method under wraps The Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn’t plan to tell Apple Inc. how it cracked a San Bernardino, Calif., terrorist’s phone, said people familiar with the matter, leaving the company in the dark on a security vulnerability on some iPhone models.
April 26, 2016 Spotify denies that some user accounts have been hacked Spotify has denied a claim that the digital music service has been hacked.
April 25, 2016 Pro-ISIS hackers release names, personal info of targeted State Dept. employees A team of hackers supporting the Islamic State terror group announced Sunday it had stolen the names, phone numbers and other personal information of State Department employees, releasing some screenshots in a message vowing to "crush" the United States.
April 25, 2016 Hackers attack KKK and briefly bring down main website Hackers associated with Ghost Squad and the Anonymous collective succeeded in launching a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the official Ku Klux Klan website, the latest move from within the hacking community to bring down the Klan's glorification of "blunt racism."
April 15, 2016 Email fraudsters scam US company out of nearly $100 million U.S. officials said Thursday that an unidentified company was defrauded out of nearly $100 million by individuals who used a fake email to pose as one of its vendors.
April 14, 2016 Journalist sentenced for helping Anonymous hack into LA Times website A well-known social media journalist was sentenced to two years in federal prison Wednesday after he was convicted of conspiring with the hacking group Anonymous to break into the Los Angeles Times' website and alter a story.
April 13, 2016 Hackers use websites you visit daily to attack you - here's how to protect yourself It's generally accepted that hackers are smart and sneaky, but we got another big reminder last weekend when several major sites were used to serve malicious ads.
April 13, 2016 FBI reportedly paid hackers for tool that cracked San Bernardino gunman's iPhone The FBI reportedly paid professional hackers for a piece of hardware that enabled investigators to access an iPhone belonging to San Bernardino gunman Syed Farook.
April 7, 2016 Pro-ISIS hacking group CCA returns to secure messaging app Telegram Pro-Islamic State hacking group Cyber Caliphate Army (CCA), whose Telegram account was closed over the weekend, made a swift return to the encrypted social media platform, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.
