Cash App
Block (formerly Twitter) owns this popular mobile payment tool, and in April 2022 the firm acknowledged that a former employee had breached the service’s servers.
The culprit clearly had a significant axe to grind with the business.
The hack involved customer names, stock trading information, account numbers and portfolio values alongside loads of .
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crypto.com
Cryptocurrency is big business, so it’s no wonder that Crypto.com was subjected to a serious breach at the start of 2022.
The attack took place on January 17th, and targeted nearly 500 people’s cryptocurrency wallets.
Despite the blockchain being a relatively secure transaction method, the thieves used a pretty simple method to get the job done: th.
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FlexBooker
At the end of 2021 and the start of 2022, appointment management business FlexBooker was hit by a vast attack that affected around three million of its users.
Confidential data including ID information, drivers’ licenses and passwords was stolen by the hackers and then offered for sale on popular hacking message boards, and many powerful users have.
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GiveSendGo
Plenty of hacks are motivated by politics rather than pure financial gain, and that’s certainly true of GiveSendGo’s breach in February 2022.
GiveSendGo is a Christian fundraising site favored by Canadian truckers who drove across the country to protest against COVID rules.
Political hackers stole and then published the information of 90,000 people.
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Marquard & Bahls
You’ve probably not heard of this business, but in February 2022 the Germany energy giant was attacked and saw its IT infrastructure destabilized.
The result.
A closure of more than 200 gas stations across Germany.
Companies like Shell struggled to supply customers with fuel because of the attack, and experts have said that the attack looks like it.
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Microsoft
Computing giant Microsoft is no stranger to cyberattacks, and on March 20th 2022 the firm was targeted by a hacking collective called Lapsus$.
The group posted a screenshot on Telegram to indicate that they’d managed to hack Microsoft and, in the process, they’d compromised Cortana, Bing, and several other products.
The hackers made off with some m.
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News Corp
News Corp is one of the biggest news organizations in the world, so it’s no surprise that hackers are eager to breach its security – and in February 2022, News Corp admitted server breaches way back in February 2020.
News Corp quickly asserted that no customer data was stolen during the breach, and that the company’s everyday work wasn’t hindered. .
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Red Cross
You wouldn’t think anyone would want to attack the Red Cross, but that’s what happened in January 2022.
An attack on a third-party contractor saw more than half a million records compromised– including documents that the Red Cross classed as “highly vulnerable”.
Ultimately, thousands of people had their sensitive data stolen, and most of the victim.
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Ronin
Ronin is a blockchaingaming platform that relies on cryptocurrency, so it’s bound to be targeted by forward-thinking criminals – and that’s exactly what happened between November 2021 and March 2022.
Ronin’s Axie Infinity game enables players to earn digital currency and NFTs, and its increasing popularity saw the firm dial back security protocols .
