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Hacker Sells $38M Worth Of Gift Cards From Thousands Of Shops A Russian hacker has sold on a top-tier underground forum close to 900,000 gift cards with a total value estimated at $38 million. The database contained cards from thousands of brands and may originate from an older breach at the now-defunct discount gift card
Ransomware Hits TU Dublin And National College Of Ireland The National College of Ireland (NCI) and the Technological University of Dublin have announced that ransomware attacks hit their IT systems. NCI is currently working on restoring IT services after being hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend that forced the college to take IT
Facebook Data Leak Now Under EU Data Regulator Investigation Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) is investigating a massive data leak concerning a database containing personal information belonging to more than 530 million Facebook users. “Previous datasets were published in 2019 and 2018 relating to a large-scale scraping of the Facebook website which at the time
Polkadot-Ecosystem Platform Polkatrain Loses $3 Million In A Rebate Arbitrage Attack On April 5, 2021, Polkatrain, a decentralized fundraising platform operating in the Polkadot ecosystem, suffered a rebate arbitrage attack resulting in the loss of $3 million. The attack was detected by blockchain ecosystem security platform SlowMist, indicating that the hack targeted Polkatrain contract with swap functionality