Rock band’s hidden hacking-themed website gets hacked
On Friday, Pal Kovacs was listening to the long-awaited new album from rock and metal giants Bring Me The Horizon when he noticed a strange sound at the end of the record’s last track. Being…
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Conservative cell carrier Patriot Mobile hit by data breach
U.S. cell carrier Patriot Mobile experienced a data breach that included subscribers’ personal information, including full names, email addresses, home zip codes, and account PINs, TechCrunch has learned. Patriot Mobile, which reportedly has fewer than…
Healthcare company WebTPA discloses breach affecting 2.5 million people
A Texas-based company that provides health insurances and benefit plans disclosed a data breach affecting almost 2.5 million people, some of whom had their Social Security number stolen. WebTPA said in a data breach notice…
Ireland privacy watchdog confirms Dell data breach investigation
A top European privacy watchdog is investigating following the recent breaches of Dell customers’ personal information, TechCrunch has learned. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) deputy commissioner Graham Doyle confirmed to TechCrunch that the DPC has…
FBI seizes hacking forum BreachForums — again
The FBI along with a coalition of international law enforcement agencies seized the notorious cybercrime forum BreachForums on Wednesday. For years, BreachForums has been a popular English-language forum for hackers and cybercriminals who wanted to…
Threat actor scraped Dell support tickets, including customer phone numbers
The person who claimed to have stolen the physical addresses of 49 million Dell customers appears to have taken more data from a different Dell portal, TechCrunch has learned. The newly compromised data includes names,…
Threat actor says he scraped 49M Dell customer addresses before the company found out
The person who claims to have 49 million Dell customer records — Menelik — told TechCrunch that he brute-forced an online company portal and scraped customer data, including physical addresses, directly from Dell’s servers. TechCrunch…
Dell discloses data breach of customers’ physical addresses
Technology giant Dell notified customers on Thursday that it experienced a data breach involving customers’ names and physical addresses. In an email seen by TechCrunch and shared by several people on social media, the computer…
Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist
As part of an investigation into people involved in the pro-independence movement in Catalonia, the Spanish police obtained information from the encrypted services Wire and Proton, which helped the authorities identify a pseudonymous activist, according…
What we learned from the indictment of LockBit’s mastermind
On Tuesday, U.S. and U.K. authorities revealed that the mastermind behind LockBit, one of the most prolific and damaging ransomware groups in history, is a 31-year-old Russian named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, aka “LockbitSupp.” As it’s…