Notorious cheating hookup site Ashley Madison is back in the news after it was discovered that the site was exposing private, often sexually explicit member photographs to other members without permission. Discovered by security researchers Bob Diachenko and Matt Svensson, the exposure involves the way Ashley Madison handles member photos that are meant to be viewed privately by ...

Updated: The price of bitcoin keeps on rising, breaking through $14,000 in trading late Wednesday — and then soaring past $16,000 on Thursday. But its status as a currency, crypto or otherwise, has hit a new low as the gaming service Steam stopped accepting bitcoin for payment partly because of those same price fluctuations. Valve Corp.’s popular ...

Bitcoin mining marketplace NiceHash has been hacked as a large sum believed to amount to $68 million in bitcoin was stolen from the site. The news was confirmed by NiceHash after the service went offline claiming to be undergoing maintenance. While not providing much in the way of details, the company did say in a statement ...

Those looking to park some of their bitcoin holdings into long-term investment opportunities for retirement or old age now have two new options of widely divergent usefulness. One appears to be entirely speculative and possibly nothing more than a marketing stunt, while a second option taps into existing U.S. retirement regulations. The flashiest of the ...

The mastermind behind a notorious botnet operating since 2011 has been arrested following an international law enforcement effort to bring an end to his online activities. 33-year-old Sergey Jaretz of Rechitsa, Belarus was arrested by local authorities Dec. 4 on behalf of a joint task-force of European Union law enforcement agencies, the U.S. Federal Bureau ...

Apple Inc. is reported to have acquired Pop Up Archive, an Oakland, California-based startup that offered an online platform of tools for organizing and searching digital spoken words. Neither company has confirmed or denied a deal has taken place, but Nieman Lab was the first to report the news. It said Apple’s response when asked for ...

Another day, another misconfigured database exposing customer data online. Today’s data breach involving 31 million records collected by Israeli emoji mobile keyboard maker AI.type. First spotted by the Kromtech Security Center, the data was found on a misconfigured MongoDB installation that AI.type had failed to make private and also had failed to set password protection for. The ...

PayPal Holdings Inc. has revealed that TIO Networks Inc., a financial services company that facilitates bill payments in offline locations it acquired earlier this year, was hacked and private data from 1.6 million customers was compromised. In a statement, PayPal said that its investigation had “identified evidence of unauthorized access to TIO’s network, including locations that ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has finally acted against dubious initial coin offerings by taking legal action against a company that raised $15 million from investors in August. In a statement, the SEC said that it had obtained an emergency asset freeze to halt trading by PlexCoin, an Ethereum blockchain-based token raise from a ...

The price of bitcoin recovered from its plunge Nov. 29 to hit yet-another new record high on Sunday as positive market news drove investors back into the market. Pushing near $12,000 for the first time, the price of bitcoin hit $11,830.13 at 3:20 p.m. EST before profit takers dropped the price back down to around ...