Gala Games
May 21, 2024
•[ financial, finance ]
An attacker steals more than $206 million and returns $22 million worth of cryptocurrency the day after from Gala Games.
Unnamed Lincoln Project vendor
February 1, 2024
•[ financial, phishing, government ]
The anti-Donald Trump super PAC Lincoln Project discloses to have lost $35,000 to a business email compromise (BEC) scam.
Hedgey Finance
April 19, 2024
•[ financial, finance ]
Token infrastructure platform Hedgey Finance undergoes two simultaneous exploits that resulted in a combined loss of $44.7 million
Town of Arlington
June 5, 2024
•[ financial, phishing, government ]
The town of Arlington discloses that it had lost nearly $446,000 in a monthslong business email compromise (BEC) scam.
Pike Finance
April 26, 2024
•[ financial, finance ]
Pike Finance suffers its second exploit in three days, resulting in the loss of $1.68 million worth of digital assets.
Large U.S. car maker
November 1, 2022
•[ financial, phishing, manufacturing ]
Researchers from Blackberry reveal that the financially motivated threat actor FIN7 targeted a large U.S. car maker with spear-phishing emails for employees in the IT department to infect systems with the Anunak backdoor.
Official Microsoft India account on X (formerly Twitter)
June 3, 2024
•[ financial, hack, phishing ]
The official Microsoft India account on X (formerly Twitter), with over 211,000 followers, is hijacked by cryptocurrency scammers to impersonate Roaring Kitty, the handle used by notorious meme stock trader Keith Gill.
Undisclosed crypto investor
May 3, 2024
•[ financial, hack, phishing ]
An individual loses around $71 million worth of bitcoin in what appears to be an address poisoning attack. A week later the author of the attack returns the stolen bounty.
Loopring
June 9, 2024
•[ financial, misconfiguration, finance ]
Loopring announces a security breach involving its two-factor authentication service Guardian, affecting two wallets, with one of them was drained of about $5 million.
MediaWorks
March 17, 2024
•[ financial, hack, technology ]
MediaWorks, a company based in New Zealand, says it is investigating an alleged security incident after a hacker claimed to have stolen the data of just over 2.4 million people and began targeting individuals for extortion payments.
Kraken
June 19, 2024
•[ financial, misconfiguration, finance ]
The Kraken crypto exchange discloses that alleged security researchers exploited a zero-day website bug to steal $3 million in cryptocurrency and then refused to return the funds.
QuoteWizard
June 10, 2024
•[ financial, misconfiguration, finance ]
Financial services firm LendingTree confirms that QuoteWizard, one of its subsidiaries, was potentially affected by a cybersecurity incident following a wider attack on customers of data storage company Snowflake.
1,899 victims in Singapore
June 14, 2024
•[ financial, hack, malware ]
A Singapore police-led law enforcement operation dismantles a regional cybercrime ring that carried out malware-enabled scams to steal tens of millions of dollars from victims since 2023.
Pacific Guardian Life Insurance
April 25, 2024
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
Pacific Guardian Life Insurance says that 165,000 people had their financial info stolen in 2023 attack.
Munchables
March 26, 2024
•[ hack, financial, finance ]
The Munchables blockchain-based game is attacked, with about $62 million worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from the game. Few hours after the attacker agrees to return the stolen funds.
Somesing
January 27, 2024
•[ financial, exploit, finance ]
Somesing, a blockchain-based social karaoke platform in South Korea, suffers an exploit and loses 730 million of its native token SSX, which amounts to $11.58 million
Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA)
January 19, 2024
•[ financial, phishing, government ]
South Africa's railway agency (PRASA) discloses that it lost some 30.6 million rand (US$1.6 million) after the transport network fell victim to a phishing scam.
Pepco Group
February 27, 2024
•[ financial, retail ]
European discount retailer Pepco Group reveals that its Hungarian business has lost a significant amount of money (15.5 Million) to cybercriminals.
Individuals in China
February 20, 2024
•[ financial, malware, finance ]
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology warns local netizens that fake wallet apps for the nation's central bank digital currency (CBDC) are already circulating and being abused by scammers.
Socket
January 16, 2024
•[ financial, finance ]
Blockchain protocol Socket pauses some operations after a threat actor steals $3.3 million.
