Tag: hacked

Ready Or Not Developer Confirms It Was Hacked, Source Code Stolen

Void Interactive, the developer behind the tactical first-person shooter game, Ready or Not, has confirmed that it was hacked. Fortunately, no player data or staff data was stolen. In a statement to Kotaku, the developer blamed the hack on “critical vulnerabilities” that were discovered in TeamCity’s cloud services for build management. No sensitive information was [...]read moreReady Or Not Developer Confirms It Was Hacked, Source Code Stolen

Roku says 576,000 user accounts hacked after second security incident

Streaming giant Roku has confirmed a second security incident in as many months, with hackers this time able to compromise more than half a million Roku user accounts. In a statement Friday, the company said about 576,000 user accounts were accessed using a technique known as credential stuffing, where malicious hackers use usernames and passwords [...]read moreRoku says 576,000 user accounts hacked after second security incident

New Zealand says Chinese ‘state-sponsored’ group hacked parliament | Cybersecurity News

New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters says alleged cyberattack ‘unacceptable’ New Zealand has accused Chinese state-sponsored hackers of infiltrating parliament, joining the United States and United Kingdom in accusing Beijing of malicious cyberactivity. New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said on Tuesday that the cyberattack was “unacceptable” and his country’s concerns had been conveyed directly [...]read moreNew Zealand says Chinese ‘state-sponsored’ group hacked parliament | Cybersecurity News

Apex Legends Tournament Postponed After Players Hacked Mid-Game

A big Apex Legends tournament came to an abrupt end after a handful of pro players were hacked during one of the final matches of the competition. Developer Respawn Entertainment and publisher EA have yet to comment on the situation, leaving folks frustrated with the state of the game and its anti-cheat tech. The Week [...]read moreApex Legends Tournament Postponed After Players Hacked Mid-Game

Apex Legends hacker said he hacked tournament games ‘for fun’

On Sunday, the world of video games was shaken by a hacking and cheating scandal. During a competitive esports tournament of Apex Legends, a free-to-play shooter video game played by hundreds of thousands of players daily, hackers appeared to insert cheats into the games of two well-known streamers — effectively hacking the players midgame. “Wait, [...]read moreApex Legends hacker said he hacked tournament games ‘for fun’

A government watchdog hacked a US federal agency to stress-test its cloud security

A U.S. government watchdog stole more than one gigabyte of seemingly sensitive personal data from the cloud systems of the U.S. Department of the Interior. The good news: The data was fake and part of a series of tests to check whether the Department’s cloud infrastructure was secure. The experiment is detailed in a new [...]read moreA government watchdog hacked a US federal agency to stress-test its cloud security

Anycubic users say their 3D printers were hacked to warn of a security flaw

Image Credits: Anycubic Anycubic customers are reporting that their 3D printers have been hacked and now display a message warning of an alleged security flaw in the company’s systems. Numerous threads on news sharing site Reddit show similar reports (hat tip to @dan) of users receiving an unsolicited text file on their Anycubic 3D printers [...]read moreAnycubic users say their 3D printers were hacked to warn of a security flaw

ESPN NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski’s X account hacked to post an NFT scam

People who still use NBA Top Shot were the primary targets of a scam tweet posted to ESPN reporter Adrian Wojnarowski’s account on X Saturday evening at about 6:30PM ET. The tweet referred to NBA Top Shot as a “popular” NFT platform, despite the fact that current activity levels are a tiny fraction of what [...]read moreESPN NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski’s X account hacked to post an NFT scam

UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare hacked by nation state as pharmacy outages drag on

U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group said Thursday in a filing with government regulators that its subsidiary Change Healthcare was compromised likely by government-backed hackers. In a filing Thursday, UHG blamed the ongoing cybersecurity incident affecting Change Healthcare on suspected nation state hackers but said it had no timeframe for when its systems would be [...]read moreUnitedHealth says Change Healthcare hacked by nation state as pharmacy outages drag on

Google Engineers Hacked The PlayStation Portal And Turned It Into A PSP Emulator

Sony’s PlayStation Portal handheld is designed to stream games from your PS5, but that hasn’t stopped Google engineers from hacking the device to run emulated PSP games. Google security engineer Calle Svensson and cloud vulnerability researcher Andy Nguyen showed off some of their work on X/Twitter, revealing a PlayStation Portal running the PSP version of [...]read moreGoogle Engineers Hacked The PlayStation Portal And Turned It Into A PSP Emulator