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Company that owns Gucci, Balenciaga, other brands confirms hack

In Brief Kering confirmed a data breach affecting customers of its luxury brands Gucci, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Lauren, and others, on Monday. Hackers stole sensitive customer data such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, and the total amount of money they spent in stores all over the world. The BBC first reported the breach. Kering said the hackers did not steal credit card numbers and that it has contacted the customers whose data is part of the breac

Probability of typing a wrong Bitcoin address

I heard someone say that Bitcoin is dangerous because you could easily make a typo when entering an address, sending money to the wrong person, and have no recourse. There are dangers associated with Bitcoin, such as losing a private key, but address typos are not a major concern. Checksums There are several kinds of Bitcoin addresses. Each is at least 20 bytes (160 bits) long, with at least 4 bytes (32 bits) of checksum. The chances of a typo resulting in a valid checksum are about 1 in 232.

Surge in coordinated scans targets Microsoft RDP auth servers

Internet intelligence firm GreyNoise reports that it has recorded a significant spike in scanning activity consisting of nearly 1,971 IP addresses probing Microsoft Remote Desktop Web Access and RDP Web Client authentication portals in unison, suggesting a coordinated reconnaissance campaign. The researchers say that this is a massive change in activity, with the company usually only seeing 3โ€“5 IP addresses a day performing this type of scanning. GreyNoise says that the wave in scans is testin

PyPI now blocks domain resurrection attacks used for hijacking accounts

The Python Package Index (PyPI) has introduced new protections against domain resurrection attacks that enable hijacking accounts through password resets. PyPI is the official repository for open-source Python packages. It is used by software developers, product maintainers, and companies working with Python libraries, tools, and frameworks. Accounts of project maintainers publishing software on PyPI are linked to email addresses. In the case of some projects, the email address is tied to a do

That 16 Billion Password Story (AKA "Data Troll")

Spoiler: I have data from the story in the title of this post, it's mostly what I expected it to be, I've just added it to HIBP where I've called it "Data Troll", and I'm going to give everyone a lot more context below. Here goes: Headlines one-upping each other on the number of passwords exposed in a data breach have become somewhat of a sport in recent years. Each new story wants to present a number that surpasses the previous story, and the clickbait cycle continues. You can see it coming a

Libpostal: C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world

libpostal: international street address NLP libpostal is a C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world using statistical NLP and open data. The goal of this project is to understand location-based strings in every language, everywhere. For a more comprehensive overview of the research behind libpostal, be sure to check out the (lengthy) introductory blog posts: ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต ๐Ÿ‡ฝ๐Ÿ‡ฐ ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฉ ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ณ ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ฒ ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ป ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ด ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ณ ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฒ ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ญ ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ Address

US recovers $225 million of crypto stolen in investment scams

The U.S. Department of Justice has seized more than $225 million in cryptocurrency linked to investment fraud and money laundering operations, the largest crypto seizure in the history of the U.S. Secret Service. The state's investigators used blockchain analysis to trace the funds stolen from over 400 victims, which were then laundered through a complex network of cryptocurrency addresses to obscure their origin. "The complaint alleges that the cryptocurrency addresses that held the over $225

Pro-Israel hackers hit Iran's Nobitex exchange, burn $90M in crypto

The pro-Israel "Predatory Sparrow" hacking group claims to have stolen over $90 million in cryptocurrency from Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, and burned the funds in a politically motivated cyberattack. The attack occurred on June 18, 2025, with Nobitex first reporting the breach on X at 2:24 AM EST. "This morning, June 19, our technical team detected signs of unauthorized access to a portion of our reporting infrastructure and hot wallet," reads Nobitex's post. "Immediately upon de

Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targetsโ€™ Addresses

The man who allegedly assassinated a Democratic Minnesota state representative, murdered her husband, and shot a state senator and his wife at their homes in a violent spree early Saturday morning may have gotten their addresses or other personal details from online data broker services, according to court documents. Suspect Vance Boelter, 57, is accused of shooting Minnesota representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, in their home on Saturday. The couple died from their inju