Capital One Accused Hacker May Have Hit 30 Other Companies August 15, 2019 By Erik Larson The Seattle woman accused of hacking into Capital One Financial Corp.’s cloud and stealing personal information on more than 100...
ECB Says One of Its Websites Was Hacked, Data Possibly Captured August 15, 2019 By Carolynn Look and Nicholas Comfort The European Central Bank said one of its websites was hacked by unauthorized people who may have stolen private information...
Alleged CapitalOne Hacker Barely Bothered to Hide August 2, 2019 By Gene Johnson and Frank Bajak SEATTLE — The 33-year-old former Amazon software engineer accused of hacking CapitalOne made little attempt to hide her attack. In...
Capital One Touted the Cloud’s Safety as Hacker Was Breaching It July 31, 2019 By Jenny Surane and Lananh Nguyen Capital One Financial Corp., in recent years, has beat the drum every chance it got: The cloud is cheaper. The...
Tipster’s Email Led to Arrest in Massive Capital One Breach July 30, 2019 By Christian Berthelsen, William Turton and Jenny Surane Capital One Financial Corp. set up an email address for tipsters — including “white hat” hackers — to alert the...
Fake Facebook Warlord Used to Spread Malware, Researchers Say July 1, 2019 By Gwen Ackerman In one of the largest malware campaigns to exploit Facebook Inc., a suspected Libyan hacker lured tens of thousands of...
Customs Says Hack Exposed Traveler, License Plate Images June 12, 2019 By Frank Bajak Customs and Border Protection said Monday that photos of travelers and license plates collected at a single U.S. border point...
Microsoft, Google Use AI to Thwart Hackers January 3, 2019 By Dina Bass Last year, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure security team detected suspicious activity in the cloud computing usage of a large retailer: One...
Ransomware and Cyber Extortion Are on the Rise – What Can Be Done? June 27, 2016 By Thomas B. Caswell and Rory D. Zamansky of Zelle LLP Ransomware is evolving from a relatively low-dollar extortion racket, into a more sophisticated, more expensive, and more prevalent major criminal...
Clinton Email Server Open to Cyber Attack October 15, 2015 By JACK GILLUM and STEPHEN BRAUN The private email server running in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s home basement when she was secretary of state was connected to...