Gabriel Kojima

·           PayPal has acknowledged that its Vancouver-based online and mobile bill payment subsidiary, Tio Networks (TIO), suffered a data breach. The attack potentially exposed personal information of 1.6 million of its customer base, which covers Canada and the U.S. ·           The announcement comes after PayPal suspended operations of Tio Networks on Nov. 10 “to protect customer data as part of an ongoing investigation of security vulnerabilities.” The examination revealed that vulnerabilities may have already been taken advantage of, with user information potentially compromised ·           A review of TIO's network had discovered customers' personally identifiable information may have been compromised. A PayPal spokesman said that information possibly included customer names, addresses, Social Security numbers and login credentials. The breac...

In 2014, Yahoo announced that it had suffered a massive data breach in which 500 million user accounts containing emails and passwords were stolen.  The company only got to know about the breach in September 2016, and labeled it as work of a ‘state-sponsored actor.’ On Tuesday  28th, Karim Baratov, a Canadian citizen, appeared in a San Francisco federal court and  pleaded guilty to hacking and claimed the whole feat was carried out with the assistance of people representing The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB).   Baratov claimed upon stealing half-billion user accounts he sent their passwords to Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev, an alleged FSB officer who is already on FBI’s (Federal Bureau of Investigation) wanted list in connection with compromising at least 500 million Yahoo accounts. Other than Dokuchaev, Alexsey Belan and Igor Anatolyevich Sushchin (also Russian citizens) are also wanted by the FBI in connection with Yahoo breach....