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In addition, the adult website Adult FriendFinder was hacked in October 2016, and over 412 million customer records were taken. [12] A data breach that occurred between May and July 2017 exposed more than 145 million customer records, making the national credit bureau Equifax another victim of black hat hacking.
By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens-Hackers have compromised several different companies' Chrome browser extensions in a series of intrusions dating back to mid-December, according to one of the ...
An FBI report showed that fraudulent investments (which caused over $3.96 billion in losses among all victims) and phishing or spoofing scams (an estimated $9.6 million in financial loss) were ...
For the second year in a row, Fortune teamed up with Lightspeed Venture Partners to identify the most promising and successful cybersecurity startups protecting businesses.
An in-depth analysis by industry trade publication Deadline of why Blackhat did not perform primarily examined the marketing strategy as "the major challenge they were unable to overcome" [25] with independent tracking services supporting this conclusion: "total awareness for Blackhat was in the 40–50% range on January 4 and grew to 50–60% ...
In a report published by Wired, a White House assessment pegged the total damages brought about by NotPetya to more than $10 billion. This assessment was repeated by former Homeland Security advisor Tom Bossert , who at the time of the attack was the most senior cybersecurity focused official in the US government.
Albert Gonzalez (born 1981) is an American computer hacker, computer criminal and police informer, [1] who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 to 2007, the biggest such fraud in history.
That’s part of what makes Fortune and Lightspeed Venture Partners’ second annual Cyber 60 an interesting heat check right now—because cybersecurity is getting increasingly labyrinthine. As ...