Amazon has confirmed that employee data was compromised after a “security event” at a third-party vendor. In a statement given to TechCrunch on Monday, Amazon spokesperson Adam Montgomery confirmed that employee information had been involved…
In October, video game giant Activision said it had fixed a bug in its anti-cheat system that affected “a small number of legitimate player accounts,” who were getting banned because of the bug. In reality,…
A hacker suspected of involvement in a series of massive Snowflake-related hacks has been arrested in Canada, according to local authorities. Ian McLeod, a spokesperson for the Canadian Department of Justice, told TechCrunch in an…
In the early hours on January 20, 2023, a doctor’s user account logged onto the Hawaii Electronic Death Registry System from out of state to certify the death of a man named Jesse Kipf. The…
The U.K.’s National Crime Agency has linked a long-standing affiliate of the LockBit ransomware group to the notorious Russia-backed Evil Corp, a cybercrime gang with links to the Russian government. The NCA said on Tuesday…
Star Health and Allied Insurance, one of India’s biggest health insurance firms, is investigating a cybersecurity incident that allegedly leaked sensitive data associated with its customers, including their medical records. The Chennai-headquartered insurance giant told…
Getty Images When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported a vulnerability in ChatGPT that allowed attackers to store false information and malicious instructions in a user’s long-term memory settings, OpenAI summarily closed the inquiry, labeling…
If you ask ChatGPT to help you make a homemade fertilizer bomb, similar to the one used in the 1995 Oklahoma City terrorist bombing, the chatbot refuses. “I can’t assist with that,” ChatGPT told me…
A hacker claims to be selling data relating to thousands of current and former employees of the Indian conglomerate Piramal Group, a multinational company that operates across pharma, financial services and real estate. Piramal rebuffed…
Hacking into an account doesn’t always require deep expertise in exploiting vulnerabilities. Sometimes it’s a simple as taking leaked information and placing it elsewhere on the internet. That’s why the release of massive password collections…