Digital currency exchanges to join up on standards and security
A group of digital currency exchanges in Japan said Friday they will form a new organization to establish industry-wide standards for security and compliance. The move, agreed between all 16 government-registered exchanges including bitFlyer Inc. and GMO Coin Inc., follows the massive Coincheck Inc. cryptocurrency ...
German government shores up defenses after cyberattack breaches foreign ministry network
Germany's government was marshaling its defenses on Thursday against a powerful cyberattack that lawmakers said had breached the foreign ministry's computer network and whose origins were unclear. The head of a parliamentary oversight panel said the attack was continuing, and security officials were trying to ...
Russian operatives compromised election systems in seven U.S. states in 2016: report
U.S. intelligence had evidence that voter registration systems or websites in seven states — Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Texas and Wisconsin — were compromised by Russian-backed operatives before the 2016 election but never told the states, NBC News reported on Tuesday. The Department of ...
U.S. and European servers were accessed from Coincheck intranet before hack
Investigative sources said Tuesday that Coincheck Inc.'s private network repeatedly accessed U.S. and European servers a few days before a massive hack in January. The sources said there is a possibility that hackers overseas were operating the company's intranet after infecting it with malware to ...
Email addresses of thousands of Porsche Japan customers compromised after cyberattacks
The company is still investigating whether other information leaked, and so far there have been no reports of suspicious emails sent to the stolen addresses.
U.S. Democrats want $300 million to fight possible Russia election tampering
U.S. Democratic leaders called on Congress on Wednesday to give the FBI $300 million to fight Russian efforts to interfere in congressional and state elections in November. Citing warnings from intelligence agencies that Russia is trying to influence the upcoming vote, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck ...
Hackers stole $6 million from Russian bank via SWIFT system, central bank says
Unknown hackers stole 339.5 million roubles ($6 million) from a Russian bank last year in an attack using the SWIFT international payments messaging system, the Russian central bank said on Friday. The disclosure, buried at the bottom of a central bank report on digital thefts ...
Coincheck users pull out ¥40.1 billion Tuesday as Japan-based exchange resumes yen withdrawals
The target of the biggest theft of digital coins in history began allowing yen withdrawals for the first time, triggering the exodus of money.
Hackers hit Winter Olympics in apparent attempt to embarrass organizers
A cyberattack paralyzed internet networks at the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, in what appears to have been a bid to embarrass the organizers of the games. Hacking caused both local area network (LAN) and wireless communications to fail during the opening ceremony ...
Pyeongchang Olympics organizers probe possible minor cyberattack on games' opening day
Pyeongchang Olympics organizers were looking into a disruption of noncritical systems on the games' opening day but could not yet confirm if it was a cyberattack, spokesman Sung Baik-you said on Saturday. The Winter Olympics opened with a spectacular ceremony on Friday, attended by several ...
As Trump attacks U.S. law enforcement, another top official quits
The U.S. Justice Department's third-ranking official, Rachel Brand, will resign and take a senior job at Walmart Inc., with sources familiar with her decision saying on Friday that she had grown increasingly uncomfortable with President Donald Trump's attacks on her department and the FBI. The ...
North Korean hackers said possibly behind massive Coincheck heist
South Korea’s national spy agency told a parliamentary committee it was possible North Korean hackers broke into the Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck Inc.
