Two hospitals in Ohio and West Virginia have been forced to turn away emergency patients after their computer systems were crippled in a ransomware attack over the weekend. The hospitals — the Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling, West Virginia, and East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry, detected the ransomware attack on Nov. 23. ...

A hacker has successfully inserted bitcoin-stealing code into a popular JavaScript library used by millions including leading companies. The hack involved the insertion of code into Event-Stream, a JavaScript npm package for working with Node.js streaming data hosted on GitHub with the aim of intercepting bitcoin payments on BitPay’s open-source bitcoin wallet Copay. Where the ...

Bitcoin has plunged to its lowest level in nearly two years, before recovering somewhat today as cryptocurrency markets continue to bounce around. The price of bitcoin has continued to fall after reaching nearly $20,000 in December. But the latest bear run started around the middle of this month after bitcoin had settled at around $6,000 ...

As the most popular online game of all time, Fortnite continues to attract hackers — the latest case involving the takeover of the rapper Drake’s account. Aubrey Drake Graham, a Canadian rapper best known as Drake is, arguably, one of the most popular rappers of the 2010s and he’s also known to do good deeds for ...

Ohio has become the first state in the United States to accept bitcoin for the payment of taxes. Starting Monday, businesses residing in the state will be able to sign up to pay their taxes in bitcoin via ohiocrypto.com, according to The Wall Street Journal. Payments will not be processed directly by the state but instead ...

The impacts of a massive drop in the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is spreading, as crypto mining companies began shutting down operations and declaring bankruptcy Thursday. Cryptocurrency mining is a process that involves using computing power to process transactions on a blockchain in return for the issue of a given cryptocurrency. In the case ...

High Tail Hall, an adult website for furries, has been hacked, leaking member data online. Furries, for those unfamiliar with the term, are people who like to dress up and pretend to be animals. High Tail Hall pitches itself as an interactive puzzle game for furries “where you can have erotic encounters with the surrounding characters.” The hack was ...

Just when the damaging infighting between rival Bitcoin Cash factions couldn’t get any worse, both forked versions of the bitcoin spinoff have suffered from various technical issues. The first act in what is starting to appear like a poorly planned out circus came from Bitcoin Cash SV, now regularly abbreviated to BSV. That’s the fork supported ...

German auto manufacturer BMW AG is expanding its nascent ride-hailing business to China with plans to start offering services in the Middle Kingdom from December. The first global automaker to obtain a ride-hailing license in China, BMW, through its BMW Mobility Service Ltd. division, will start operating in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province. Along with the launch of ...

The U.S. Postal Service has patched a security vulnerability that exposed the data of some 60 million customers to anyone who was logged into the USPS.com website. Made public Sunday by security researcher Brian Krebs, the vulnerability related to an authentication weakness in an application programming interface being used on the USPS website. The API in ...