Some of the hacks in the past few months have been shockingly successful. Networks were hacked, Bitcoin exchanges attacked and coins stolen, and personal data of the FBI stolen. A brief overview.
In August 2021, cyber criminals targeted cryptocurrencies at PolyNetwork and Liquid. Personal data was captured by the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center and journalists and activists in the Middle East, among others.
PolyNetwork hacked and Bitcoin stolen
The interoperability platform PolyNetwork, a bridge blockchain to exchange crypto currencies without a centralized exchange, was the victim of an unknown attacker. This exploited a security gap within the platform and stole coins and tokens from the blockchains Ethereum (ETH), Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and Polygon (MATIC, not related to the PolyNetwork) worth 611 million US dollars. It is the largest publicly known theft of cryptocurrencies to date.
73 million pounds stolen from liquid cryptocurrency exchange
The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Liquid was the victim of a hack. Unknown stolen just under 73 million pounds in cryptocurrencies. Including Bitcoin and Ethereum tokens. The company did not disclose how the LiquidGlobal wallets were compromised.
1,9 million data records freely accessible
On an Elasticsearch cluster with a Bahraini IP address, a database with detailed data records from more than 1,9 million people was freely accessible on the Internet. The database comes from the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center and contains data on suspected terrorists identified by US authorities. The search services Censys and ZoomEye had already scanned the database. An indictment or even a conviction was not required for an entry in this database. The data included, among other things, full name, citizenship, gender, date of birth, passport number, issuing state of the passport and a no-fly indicator.
Pegasus spy software against journalists
The smartphones of several journalists and activists from the Middle East are said to have been hacked with the controversial spy software Pegasus from the Israeli Trojan manufacturer NSO. For example, the hacks published private images of reputational damage. Ghada Oueiss, a Lebanese radio journalist for AL-Jazeera, is also among the victims. On Twitter, pictures made the rounds in which she can be seen in a bikini in a whirlpool. It was also alleged that these photos were taken at her manager's home.
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