OT: Target got got (de facto Bad Cyber Stuff thread)

[forty_three]

'Amazon Got Hacked': Viral Rumor Says Criminals Added Fake Locker Addresses to Accounts

By email, a spokesperson for Amazon told Snopes that the issue was an "error" and that they were "working to fix the issue."

www.snopes.com

Seen this going around a lot. Easier to convince dummies they were hacked than it is to actually hack one of the largest companies on earth.

 

[forty_three]

AI girlfriends will only break your heart, privacy experts warn

Romantic chatbots foster a toxic dynamic and relentlessly pry user data, The Mozilla Foundation found.

www.businessinsider.com

What? Someone figured out a way to exploit lonely guys for profit? That's unpossible!

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Seems like the city of Hamilton's been ransomwared.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-cybersecurity-incident-1.7125556

 

[dash]

Seems like the city of Hamilton's been ransomwared.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-cybersecurity-incident-1.7125556

I've often been asked to write a database 'hammer'.

/ @dare2be is familiar with those as well.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

I managed to hack into your digital personnel file at work @Comeds

Is this the “unfortunate incident at company ball game outing” jpeg you wanted me to delete?

 

[Comeds]

I managed to hack into your digital personnel file at work @Comeds

Is this the “unfortunate incident at company ball game outing” jpeg you wanted me to delete?

View attachment 355562

Yeah that's the one. Pretty embarrassing. Tena was really traumatized by my book cover phone case. Oh well, phone still worked.
Doesn’t sound like there is a company baseball outing this year.

 

[forty_three]

 

[forty_three]

After Denial, AT&T Confirms Data Breach Affecting 73 Million Users

Follow us on Twitter (X) @Hackread - Facebook @ /Hackread

www.hackread.com

Even if you were smart and ended your relationship with this shitty company, you almost surely still got got.

 

[forty_three]

Crazy

India rescues 250 citizens enslaved by Cambodian cybercrime gang

The Indian government says it rescued and repatriated 250 citizens who sought jobs in Cambodia, only to be forced into conducting cybercrime once they arrived.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

Wonder how many of them I have talked to and subsequently pissed off.

 

[forty_three]

UnitedHealth reveals hackers may have stolen data on a sizable number of Americans

The Minnesota-based health care giant will offer identity protection and credit monitoring as initial investigation reveals hack impacted data for ‘substantial proportion’ of Americans.

www.startribune.com

The figure I saw was 152 million "customers" in the USA. That's approaching half the country.

Can't wait to find out which corner got cut in order to save money and increase shareholder value in an industry that should never ever be for profit.