12 May, 2026

Illinois man charged with hacking Snapchat accounts to steal nude photos

U.S. prosecutors have charged an Illinois man with orchestrating a phishing operation that allowed him to hack the Snapchat accounts of nearly 600 women to steal private photos and sell them online. Between May 2020 and February 2021, 26-year-old defendant Kyle Svara allegedly used various social engineering tactics to obtain victims’ emails, phone numbers, and […]

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Trust Wallet says 2,596 wallets drained in $7 million crypto theft attack

Trust Wallet says attackers who compromised its browser extension right before Christmas have drained approximately $7 million from nearly 3,000 cryptocurrency wallet addresses. The cryptocurrency wallet (used by over 200 million people according to its official website) allows users to store, send, receive, and manage Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and thousands of other cryptocurrencies and digital […]

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University of Phoenix discloses data breach after Oracle hack

The University of Phoenix (UoPX) has joined a growing list of U.S. universities breached in a Clop data theft campaign targeting vulnerable Oracle E-Business Suite instances in August 2025. Founded in 1976 and headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, UoPX is a private for-profit university with nearly 3,000 academic staff and over 100,000 enrolled students. The university disclosed the data […]

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University of Pennsylvania confirms new data breach after Oracle hack

​The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) has announced a new data breach after attackers stole documents containing personal information from its Oracle E-Business Suite servers in August. The private Ivy League research university was founded in 1740 and has 5,827 faculty members and 29,109 students, with an 8:1 student-to-faculty ratio. It also has an academic operating […]

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North Korean hackers stole over $2 billion in crypto this year

North Korean hackers have stolen an estimated $2 billion worth of cryptocurrency assets in 2025, marking the largest annual total on record. The figure brings the total confirmed amount stolen by these threat actors to more than $6 billion. According to the United Nations and government agencies, these funds are used to further the development […]

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Pro-Russian hackers blamed for water dam sabotage in Norway

The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) says that pro-Russian hackers took control of critical operation systems at a dam and opened outflow valves. The attack occurred in April and is thought to have been a demonstration of Russia’s ability to remotely hack critical infrastructure in the country. At the Arendalsuka annual national forum in the city […]

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Man pleads guilty to hacking networks to pitch security services

A Kansas City man has pleaded guilty to hacking multiple organizations to advertise his cybersecurity services, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Wednesday. 32-year-old Nicholas Michael Kloster was indicted last year for hacking into the networks of three organizations in 2024, including a health club and a Missouri nonprofit corporation. According to court documents, Kloster accessed the […]

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ViLE gang members sentenced for extortion, police portal breach

Two members of a group of cybercriminals named ViLE were sentenced this week for hacking into a federal law enforcement web portal in an extortion scheme. According to court documents, ViLE specializes in obtaining personal information about targets to harass, threaten, or extort them, a practice known as “doxing.” To collect sensitive information on their victims, […]

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Ukraine claims it hacked Tupolev, Russia’s strategic warplane maker

The Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense claims it hacked the Russian aerospace and defense company Tupolev, which develops Russia’s supersonic strategic bombers. According to Ukrainian news outlets, a source within GUR said the military intelligence hackers breached Tupolev’s systems and stole 4.4 gigabytes of classified information. This stolen data includes personal […]

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