The US's central bank has confirmed information was stolen from its servers during a hack attack.
Up to 22 million login names may have been stolen during a hack attack on Yahoo Japan.
Sony has begun offering PlayStation Network gamers incentives to return to the system following its major hack attack.
However, soon after trading resumed the site came under a sustained hack attack which saw it bombarded with data.
Virgin Media has said it was forced to take its website offline for an hour during a hack attack.
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In a statement explaining what happened, MTGox said the delays in trading had not been caused by a hack attack.
The apparent hack attack follows the approval of a new standard for deep packet inspection by a meeting last month of the World Telecommunication Standardisation Assembly.
More than 10 million people thought to have accounts with Electronic Arts's (EA) Origin game store are at risk from a hack attack that swaps games for malicious code, researchers say.
When faced with a hack attack, no corporate general counsel would ever authorize his company to employ cyber ninjas to hack back at the hackers out of concern for legal liabilities.
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Members of the collective would often post a short Twitter message after a successful hack attack, providing a link to a Pastebin post which in turn contained details of the data they had copied from the target's computer servers.
Shortly before the acid attack, somebody attempted to hack his Facebook page, it said.
In general, composition-of-matter lawsuits are considered harder to win than other avenues of attack employed by generic drugmakers to hack away at the thicket of patents that guard blockbuster medicines.
"This was not a hack on the Twitter service, it was a personal attack followed by the theft of private company documents, " Twitter co-founder Biz Stone writes on the company's official blog.
The hack only works until the machine is powered off, but the attack even foils that, intercepting the switch signal and making the system only appear to power down.
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The hack appears to be a mere prank, rather than a truly damaging attack: Death in World of Warcraft is more of a nuisance than a real loss, and characters can be resurrected.
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CNET, a tech site that partners with CNN, says the hack highlights how interconnected information is online -- and how vulnerable that setup is to attack.
In a statement, US attorney Paul Fishman said Auernheimer "concocted" the story that the attack was done to make the internet more secure only after he got into trouble for the 2010 hack.
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