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U.S. WEBSITES HACKED. Hackers takedown 14 U.S. airport websites offline. The websites of major U.S. airports, including those in Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, were taken offline during a cyberattack. How did they do it? Simple. Denial-of-service attack. In this case, the servers hosting the airport sites were swamped with thousands of requests, making…

Toyota Motor Corporation exposed 296,019 customer information after an access key was publicly available on GitHub for almost five years. OMG! For five years? This is crazy! Toyota T-Connect is the automaker’s official connectivity app that allows owners of Toyota cars to link their smartphone with the vehicle’s infotainment system for phone calls, music, navigation,…

Student jailed for hacking female classmates’ email, Snapchat accounts. A judge sentenced a Puerto Rico University student to 13 months in prison for hacking over a dozen email and Snapchat accounts of female colleagues. Iván Santell-Velázquez hacked female student’s accounts and setup a spyware to record video. He then harassed numerous women with the nude…

Cybercriminal had hacked the personal data of all its 4 million customers and demanded a ransom of more than $1 million. The hackers threatened to expose the personal data, diagnoses, medical history and treatments of high-profile customers. Australian government introduced legislation that would increase penalties for companies that fail to protect clients’ private information.

An 18 years old teenager, socially engineered an Uber employee after somehow discovering the employee’s WhatsApp number. He convinced the employee to log in to a fake Uber site, which quickly grabbed the entered credentials in real time and used them to log in to the genuine Uber site. For MFA he tricked the employee to…

Hackers stole credit card, customer account records including names, cities, email addresses, and hashed passwords; the login information was later sold on the dark web. How did the hackers steal data from a $200 billion online store company? Zoetop stored people’s credit card numbers in plain text in a debug log whenever a transaction encountered…

Vietnamese hackers compromised Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, and InterContinental Hotels. How did they do it? Simple. They logged onto the network servers with admin password which was set to “Qwerty1234″

Australian telecom provider Opus got hacked. Hackers breached the network and stole 9.8 million customer records. They are demanding $1 million for it’s return.