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Private key compromises led crypto hack losses over the past decade as recent DeFi exploits show attackers moving beyond smart contract bugs. Private key compromises are emerging as one of crypto’s ...

A nearly $300 million exploit on a smaller crypto project has sent shockwaves through the decentralized finance (DeFi) industry. Panic over the weekend caused investors to pull $9 billion from Aave, ...

One of Canada’s largest life and health insurers says a recent data breach has exposed the personal information of up to 70,000 customers, with the majority of accounts hacked belonging to one large ...

Rockstar Games hackers ShinyHunters released the stolen data early, revealing revenue for GTA Online and Red Dead Online. But, crucially, no GTA 6 information appears to have leaked online. The stolen ...

Booking.com confirms a data breach that exposed traveler details, raising urgent concerns about highly targeted phishing scams and customer safety. That upcoming vacation? Hackers may already know all ...

For the past several weeks, Anthropic says it secretly possessed a tool potentially capable of commandeering most computer servers in the world. This is a bot that, if unleashed, might be able to hack ...

Security researchers say they have identified a hack-for-hire group targeting journalists, activists, and government officials across the Middle East and North Africa. The hackers used phishing ...

Thousands of sensitive Los Angeles Police Department records were leaked following a data breach at the L.A. City Attorney’s Office, according to a recent report. The hack occurred in March and ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A hack of the L.A. city attorney’s office compromised 7.7 terabytes of sensitive LAPD records. Leaked materials ...

The maintainers of the popular Axios HTTP client have published a detailed post-mortem describing how one of its developers was targeted by a social engineering campaign linked to North Korean hackers ...

Decentralized finance company Drift says it has suspended withdrawals and deposits after confirming a security incident. The crypto platform said in a post on X that it was “experiencing an active ...