1.3 Million Patients Hit by Montana Hacking
Approximately 1.3 million Patients have been victimized during a hacking incident in the State of Montana’s Department of Public Health and Human Services.
Russian Hackers Steal a Billion Usernames and Passwords
Wednesday 06 August 2014 10:00
Written by: Caroline Baldwin A group of Russian cyber criminals attacked 500 million email addresses and stole 1.2 billion usernames and passwords. According to US cyber security company Hold Security, the gang has the largest cache of stolen data in the history of cyber crime.
Malware Hijacks Millions of Android Devices to Mine Monero
Cybercriminals are increasingly hijacking other people’s devices to mine Monero (XMR), in a trend now called cryptojakcing. According to Malwarebytes, a “drive-by” mining campaign recently redirected millions of Android users to a website that hijacked their devices to mine the privacy-centric cryptocurrency using Coinhive .