Crypto ‘Insurance’ Might Not Protect You From Theft March 27, 2026 By Austin Carr and Olga Kharif When Matthew Allan realized nearly $100,000 in Bitcoin was missing from his Coinbase account, he wasn’t too worried. He had...
FBI Says N. Korea-Related Hacker Group Behind Crypto Firm Heist January 25, 2023 A hacker group associated with North Korea, the Lazarus Group, also known as APT38, was responsible for the theft last...
Latin American Crime Cartels Turn To Crypto To Clean Up Their Cash December 8, 2020 By Diego Oré MEXICO CITY — In April 2019, Mexican police arrested suspected human trafficker Ignacio Santoyo in a plush area of the...
Florida Teen Pleads Not Guilty to Masterminding Twitter Hack August 5, 2020 By Brad Brooks A 17-year-old Florida boy accused of masterminding the hacking of celebrity accounts on Twitter Inc, including those of Democratic presidential...
Twitter’s Security Woes Included Broad Access to User Accounts July 27, 2020 By Jordan Robertson, Kartikay Mehrotra and Kurt Wagner Twitter Inc. has struggled for years to police the growing number of employees and contractors who have the ability to...
Before Hack Tore Through Twitter, Online Forum Offered Accounts for Sale July 17, 2020 By Raphael Satter and Joseph Menn Before a hacking campaign tore through Twitter and compromised some of its most high-profile users, an ad went up on...
Ransomware Attack Hits More than 20 Texas Local Governments August 23, 2019 By Kathleen Foody and Jake Bleiberg DALLAS — More than 20 local governments in Texas were targeted in a coordinated ransomware attack of unprecedented size on...
Compliance Officers Wary of Switch to ‘Wild West’ Crypto Sector March 28, 2019 By Anna Irrera and Tom Wilson NEW YORK/LONDON — After almost three decades in senior compliance roles at large financial firms including Bank of New York...
NAS Says Ransomware Demands Growing Along with Cyber Claim Costs March 26, 2019 Cybercrime claims by policyholders outside the health care sector nearly doubled in 2018, led by financial fraud, often phishing schemes...
Norsk Hydro Ransomware Attack Is ‘Severe,’ but Common March 19, 2019 By Nate Lanxon Norsk Hydro ASA confirmed that a ransomware attack was behind production outages across the aluminum producer’s operations in Europe and...