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The general function of social hacking is to gain access to restricted information or to a physical space without proper permission. Most often, social hacking attacks are achieved by impersonating an individual or group who is directly or indirectly known to the victims or by representing an individual or group in a position of authority. [1]
On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1] [2] Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the accounts themselves and post the tweets directly.
In March 2024, Diogo Santos Coelho was arrested in the UK for running a hacking site called RaidForums. It was reported by Vice Media that T-Mobile attempted to stop the sharing of the stolen data at the time of the incident by secretly paying the hackers over $200,000 through Coelho's middleman service. The plan failed and the stolen data ...
In an epic data breach, hackers claim to have taken 2.9 billion personal records from National Public Data. Most of the data are leaked online.
A class action lawsuit has sparked a viral but unsubstantiated claim that the Social Security numbers of all U.S. citizens were leaked as part of a data breach this year.
The company, which owns the Trump-centric social media app Truth Social and trades under the ticker DJT, soared in its stock-market debut but has since erased all of those gains and more. On ...
On August 12, the Harris campaign (formerly the Biden campaign) likewise acknowledged having been targeted by a failed spear phishing attack by Iran. [27] On August 19, American intelligence agencies confirmed that Iran had hacked the Trump campaign and attempted to hack the Biden-Harris campaign through social engineering. [28]
Krispy Kreme, Inc. (NASDAQ:DNUT) shares are trading lower on Wednesday. In an exchange filing, the company said it is facing operational disruptions after an unauthorized cyber incident was ...