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After hackers launched a new cyber attack against Koei Tecmo, the company has shut down its websites to stop any info from getting out The news first broke via Famitsu, who reported that the Europe division of the company has been under heavy online attacks with a risk of leaking information for at least 65,000[...]

if you thought Nintendo didn't care about who was hacking their games, think again, as they are well aware of it.

Today in hacking-because-they-can news, it appears a few hackers attacked public servers for Fallout 76 and became a cyber Grinch The story is coming from the game's Reddit forums, in which several players have noted that their accounts have been cleaned out of items within their inventory Which promoted a post from one of the[...]

As fans gets ready for the return of "Mr. Robot" for its fourth and final season, USA Network's latest "gift" harkens back to the "good old sitcom" days.

Though the hackers who took control of the account on Saturday have seemingly been thwarted, Bendis's profile remains stripped bare of a profile picture or header image, and The Great One remains unable to post to it. However, Bendis has broken his silence on the crisis, posting a message to fans on Instagram: Hey, thank you for[...]

It seemed as though the world could finally breathe a huge sigh of relief Saturday as superstar comic book writer "The Great One" Brian Bendis had seemingly regained control of his Twitter account following a grueling three-hour ordeal wherein hackers captured the account and used it to post vague messages, Soundcloud links, and shoutouts to[...]

Stars Rami Malek, Christian Slater, and Carly Chaikin, and creator Sam Esmail offered 'Mr. Robot' fans Season 4 updates at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival...

The things companies do to make sure hackers don't ruin their system is insane sometimes Or at least the lengths they'll go to is pretty extreme Take Valve, for example, who apparently has spent over $100,000 on bounties against hackers invading their system and games they provide PCGamesN ran a story this weekend detailing the[...]

Well, if you're an average citizen, that's not a very comforting idea." – Alex Gibney Here's the official overview of the upcoming HBO series Stuxnet, described as "a tale of hackers, spies, nuclear secrets, and how one clandestine mission opens the Pandora's Box of cyber-warfare forever — a new era of global conflict without rules." In the mid-to-late[...]

This is a dilemma that users face every day, with many choosing the less secure option of using either the same password for all their accounts, or simple passwords that are easy for hackers to guess However, only by taking appropriate precautions and using strong, unique passwords will users be confident that their valuable accounts are[...]

Blizzard's Korean Overwatch forums released a statement this week informing fans that they have helped track down and turn over to police several individuals selling illegal hacking software that messed with the game.

We'll chalk it up to the developers not having the foresight to see this coming for now, but Call Of Duty: WWII's beta has already been overrun by hackers There's an entire Reddit thread that's been building for the past 24 hours, but essentially, there's more than just a handful of people who currently have[...]

Good news for hackers who are looking to have some fun with their Nintendo Switch, as SwitchBrew has confirmed that there is a way to hack into the system using the current 3.0 update The finer details can be found at this link, but the layman's shorthand version is that there are specific exploits that[...]

Following-up on promises from earlier in the week that more "data dumps" were to follow, hackers stepped-up their attacks against HBO on Sunday by leaking several episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm (set to premiere October 2017), Ballers and Insecure and other series (including as-yet-unaired episodes of Barry and The Deuce) The week-long back-and-forth between the[...]

A hacker or group of hackers known collectively as The Dark Overlord, who were purportedly behind the theft of Netflix show Orange is the New Black, have released eight episodes of upcoming ABC game show Steve Harvey's Funderdome, as Bleeding Cool reported last night ABC apparently refused to pay a ransom to prevent the show's release, so[...]

And by "kidnapped" we mean that hackers have managed to get a hold of the upcoming Disney movie and are threatening to release it unless Disney pays them an insane amount of money, according to Deadline Disney says they are working with the FBI and have no plans to pay the ransom for the movie[...]

The hackers who we reported earlier this morning claimed to have stolen the new season of Orange is the New Black from Netflix and was threatening to release it online unless the streaming service paid a ransom has reportedly released all of the episodes They uploaded the first episode of the show as proof and[...]

This had a cascading impact on other firms who relied on their ability to coordinate with UTA. One UTA insider is reporting that a ransom of 25,000 bitcoins had been demanded (a value of approximately $30 million) by hackers to suspend the impact of the viral attack A UTA executive denied that there had in fact[...]

DMG would later make large investments into Marvel's fellow New York publisher, Valiant Entertainment. So, basically, a lot more folk got to see thee guys in China. Currently, Chinese hackers are the no.1 suspect for the recent OPM hack, exposing data for security clearances and US government employee records, affecting up to four million people. They are also suspected[...]

During the first week, the alleged hackers were interviewed byThe Verge and declared they did it to protest against unequal practises at the studio. Then in early December, North Korea condemned the imminent release of The Interview for its portrayal of their leader Kim Song Un as a grotesque buffoon This led the alleged hackers, possibly[...]