Iain Marlow and Karen Leigh report: Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong said that Google Inc warned him about government-backed hacking attempts as the former British colony’s historic protests continue to draw global attention – and China’s ire. The student leader on July 16 posted on Twitter a message he said he’d received from Google...
Phil Muncaster reports: Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint has become the latest to lose tens of millions of dollars in a cyber-attack. The firm said it was forced on Friday to stop all services — including withdrawals, deposits, payments, and new account openings — while it investigated the incident. It has also notified the relevant...
Lawrence Abrams has a small update to the Evite breach that was first reported in April by ZDNet after a hacker calling themself “GnosticPlayers” put data up for sale on the dark web along with data of other firms: The data breach monitoring service Haveibeenpwned.com has added a database dump of almost 101 million Evite...
Frédéric Tomesco reports: Mouvement Desjardins is expanding a protection plan for personal and business customers in the wake of the data leak that compromised the personal information of more than 2.9 million members. All current and future Desjardins caisse members are now automatically and permanently protected against identity theft at no cost, chief executive...
Singapore’s public sector to adopt new measures to tighten data security