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A judge sentenced the teen hacker who leaked GTA 6 footage to a secure hospital until doctors say he can leave
A UK court sentenced Arion Kurtaj, 18, to indefinite confinement in a hospital after he hacked Rockstar Games and leaked GTA 6 footage.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin's X account was hacked and followers were duped out of $700,000 for fake NFTs
Buterin has 4.9 million followers on Twitter, and a fake post asked people to connect their digital wallets to a link that led to the theft.
After gaining control of our reporter's phone, a hacker ripped her off for $10,000. She set out to find them.
In today's edition of 10 Things in Tech: TikTok has changed the dance industry, Musk's $1 million bounty, and your Mac may contain a hidden manifesto.
A bored hacktivist browsing an unsecured airline server stumbled upon national security secrets including the FBI's 'no-fly' list. She says what she found reveals a 'perverse outgrowth of the surveillance state.'
Maia arson crimew, the Swiss hacker behind the find, was indicted by the US government in 2021 on charges related to a separate hack.
From writing malicious code to creating deepfakes, generative-AI tools like ChatGPT are being used for harmful purposes. Here's how founders and VCs are thinking about policing them.
Recently, hype around generative AI has exploded. With its growth, some founders and VCs worry the tech's innovation outpaces its regulation.
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A self-driving-car developer who tweeted support for the 'extremely hardcore' culture at Twitter says he has a 12-week internship to improve its search quality
George Hotz and Elon Musk have a history, with Musk emailing Hotz in 2015 that he "should just work at Tesla" and Hotz reportedly turning him down.
The person who claims to have hacked Uber says he's only 18, report says
The supposed hacker told The New York Times that he had persuaded an Uber worker to send him a password that gave him access to its systems.
Elon Musk's crypto interview was broadcast on the South Korean government's YouTube channel that was hacked and renamed 'SpaceX Invest'
The breach on Saturday morning is the fourth time in the last two weeks that a YouTube channel run by the South Korean government was hacked.
I stole people's identities for a living. Here are the top 4 things everyone should do to lower their risk of getting hacked by cybercriminals.
Brett Johnson was once a credit card and identity thief but now works to detect internet fraud. He says most people make the same mistakes online.
Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko is a cybersecurity celebrity who once said he could break the internet in 30 minutes
The former Twitter security chief is behind an explosive whistleblower complaint accusing the company of lax practices.
Disneyland's social media accounts were hacked with racist, offensive posts after a 'super hacker' took 'revenge' on the park
A spokesperson for the park confirmed that the accounts had been hacked early Thursday morning and said the obscene posts had since been deleted.
1 billion Chinese citizens' data stolen after a police database was left open without a password for a year, reports say
Access to a Shanghai police database containing 1 billion Chinese citizens' personal data was reportedly open for over a year.
Hackers built a site that lets anyone text random Russians about the war in Ukraine
The group claims that the website has been used to send over 30 million texts.
A lone hacker on a revenge mission says he is the one who keeps turning off North Korea's internet
"If they don't see we have teeth, it's just going to keep coming," the American hacker said.
BitMart says it's resumed crypto withdrawals three days after hackers stole almost $200 million in funds
Sheldon Xia, the founder of BitMart exchange, said on Twitter withdrawals would be resumed "step by step".
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BitMart suspends withdrawals after hackers drained almost $200 million in cryptocurrencies using a stolen private key
Close to $200 million was stolen from crypto wallets from the BitMart exchange using a stolen private key.
Facebook is suing a Ukrainian hacker it alleges scraped and sold publicly available user information from 178 million accounts
Facebook alleges Alexander Alexandrovich Solonchenko scraped the phone numbers and user IDs from 180 million users and sold them online.
Purported hacker claims they defaced Trump's campaign website to protest Joe Biden's stance on Turkey
Former President Donald Trump's campaign site was apparently hacked on Monday and replaced with a message from a supporter of the Turkish president.
T-Mobile customers are left feeling frustrated as hacker comes forward, calling the company's security 'awful'
Some customers are experiencing fraudulent charges on debit cards and spam calls and text messages in the wake of the security breach.
Poly Network says all $610 million stolen by a hacker has been returned after Tether released the final $33 million
Poly Network has taken the unusual step of embracing the apparent hacker, who stole $610 million in early August.