Hacking

Officials seized more than 94,000 bitcoin from Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31, who are accused of conspiracy to launder, not of actually hacking 119,000 BTC from Hong Kong's Bitfinex exchange back in 2016. Continue Reading →

A hacker exploited the Polygon-based Vulcan Forged NFT Marketplace and got hold of the private keys from 96 crypto wallets, which enabled the hacker to steal 4.5 million PYR tokens (worth about $140 million). According to crypto.com, Vulcan Forged's PYR token is down 12% this morning. Continue Reading →

As most of you know, my MetaMask crypto wallet was hacked on Sunday morning and drained of $400 worth of ETH. In the chronicle, which you can read here, I logged how quickly dozens of bots responded to my social media pleas for help. The content (from obvious bots or hackers with good social listening tools) generally pointed me to Instagram accounts or linked me to people who could "help me" get my crypto back. This was all obvious nonsense. Continue Reading →

Twitter was hacked. Should you be worried? Shelly Palmer talks with Kerry Drew and Bianca Peters about what happened and what you should do about it on Fox 5's Good Day NY. Original Airdate: July 21, 2020 Continue Reading →

The Attorney General of the United States announced that the government had confirmed that the Equifax hack was the work of the Chinese military. As we enter the age of AI-assisted warfare, it’s important to unpack some of the underlying issues. Continue Reading →

Anything that can be hacked will be hacked. Electronic voting machines are no exception. Which raises the question, "Could you hack enough electronic voting machines to influence (rig) the outcome of the upcoming presidential election?" Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer talks about US Government Data Breaches and getting hacked on Fox 5 with Ben Simmoneau and Juliet Huddy. Original airdate: July 14, 2015 Continue Reading →

I got an email from Google AdWords thanking me for my payment. Payment? What payment? This is my personal, private email account; it's not tied to Google AdWords or anything else for that matter. Had I been hacked? Continue Reading →