The Twitter hacker was tried and sentenced as a “Youthful Offender,” as he was yet to turn 18 when the hack was perpetrated. This helped him to avoid a minimum 10-year sentence that would have followed if he’d been convicted as an adult.
CD Projekt said its backup systems remain untouched and doesn’t believe the compromised systems contained any personal data of its users of its services and players.
The attack had a rather strange outcome, as the Hacken CEO stated that this “was not a typical hacking”, and he plans to discuss the project with the hackers.
The malicious Trezor app has been downloaded over 1000 times and may have already caused some serious problems to unsuspecting users.
Ledger has indicated that the leaked database will not compromise the customers’ funds or even their personal hardware wallet.
This has been one of the major breaches of cybersecurity where the hackers tried to access the secret data of the US government. The FBI and other intelligence agencies have started an investigation into this matter and will submit a detailed report in the coming days.
Before the attack was contained and the actor successfully interrupted, their document storage had already been accessed. Unfortunately, the actor compromised the infrastructure in the well-calculated attack and executed his mission.
Ledger customers are now facing a significant increase in phishing attempts after a major leak of email and private information affected them in early 2020.
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In a move to protect customers from any threats, this week Robinhood encouraged users to implement such measures as two-factor authentication.
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Cybersecurity involves the protection of confidential data on web linked systems vulnerabilities and cyber theft. Internet-driven businesses employ the use of cybersecurity tools to avoid unauthorized access to their computer and data centers.
Cybercrime remains one of the major threats to businesses and internet investors in the tech space. Every day, we get stories on events of online theft, and going by the predictions of tech experts, the rate of global cybercrimes is expected to get worse in the coming years if drastic measures are not put in place.
Tech giants such as IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, Cisco, etc. have invested billions in Cyber Security with the hope of minimizing the rate of cyber-crimes across the globe.
The spread of malicious attacks and internet fraud continues to increase yearly, leaving a ruin of lives and assets in its wake. Luckily, the world has firms such as the ones listed above to fight for it, as the government can only do so much. Therefore, with these cybersecurity companies in existence, one can only hope that the war on cybercrime is won.
The battle to put an end to cybercrimes has been on for some time, and no matter how things may seem today, it would have been worse if not the help of certain cyber security firms.
According to export reports, over $3 trillion was lost worldwide to cybercriminals in 2015 alone, and if no solution is put in place to curb the rate, the stakeholders could be losing up to $6 trillion by 2021.
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