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An Alabama resident on Monday confessed to hacking the SEC’s X account and posting a fake Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) exchange-traded fund approval message, causing millions of dollars in market losses. What Happened: Eric Council pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit aggravated identity...

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) has responded to security concerns surrounding Apex Legends by implementing the first in a series of security updates. This action follows a disturbing incident during the Apex Legends Global Series where professional players were hacked mid-match, prompting the...

Crypto hardware wallet provider Ledger was the target of a sophisticated hacking incident, which led to the theft of approximately $484,000 in assets. It was linked to a former Ledger employee who fell victim to a phishing attack. The incident unfolded when the former employee's NPMJS...

Decentralized exchange KyberSwap publicly offered a 10% bounty to an unidentified hacker responsible for a cyber heist, in which funds worth over $50 million were siphoned off. The offer was communicated through a message from a contract deployer wallet associated with KyberSwap. The message...

The official Twitter account of Robinhood Markets Inc. (NASDAQ: HOOD) was compromised by hackers on Wednesday who used it to promote a fraudulent cryptocurrency project. The hackers announced the launch of a new token called $RBH, claiming it was available for purchase on the Binance Smart...

Riot Games, the video game developer, publisher and esports tournament company owned by Tencent Holdings ADR (OTC: TCEHY), announced the source code for its game League of Legends had been stolen. Last week, Riot revealed it had been a victim of a cyber attack, but assured that no...

Russian hackers were behind the cyberattack on one of the largest Australian private health insurance providers, compromising the details of nearly 10 million current and former customers.  What Happened: Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw on Friday said intelligence showed that a...

A 17-year-old teen is arrested today and a journalist suggests that the teen is suspected for the GTA 6 leak which happened last week along with the Uber leak that happened this month with the connection of hacking group Lapsus$. The City of London Police posted on Twitter that on the evening of...

On Friday, an anonymous white-hat hacker named @Tree_of_Alpha managed to suspend trading on cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN) by hacking its advanced trading platform.  The white-hat hacker tweeted that they found a “potentially market-nuking”...

Another DeFi hack has resulted in the loss of $12.7 million worth of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) from a cross-chain DeFi protocol. What Happened: Earlier today, pNetwork (CRYPTO: PNT) reported that a hacker exploited a bug in the protocol’s codebase and made off with 277 pBTC (tokenized Bitcoin)...