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Cybersecurity concerns surged in El Salvador in April when the same hacker group conducted two significant hacking activities. First, a massive data privacy breach from an unconfirmed source and, second, sensitive information of the government’s Bitcoin (BTC) wallet, Chivo. The hacker group CiberInteligenciaSV was behind a massive personal data breach on April 6 that affected 5.1 million Salvadorans. More recently, the same hackers leaked Chivo Wallet’s source code and ATM network VPN credentials. Chivo is a government-backed custodial Bitcoin wallet that has been the center of controversy among peer-to-peer money enthusiasts and the cypherpunk community. The company has commented on the matter, calling it “fake news” in a press release on April 24 on X (formerly Twitter). Picks for you US demands 3 years in jail for Binance founder CZ 50 mins ago Biden proposes highest Capital Gains Tax in over 100 years for stocks and crypto 2 hours ag...

Major crypto exchange Huobi has quietly fixed a data breach in which a bad actor could have stolen user assets, spread malware, learned the IP address of every over-the-counter (OTC) trader since 2017, and identified nearly 5,000 crypto whales on the platform, according to a white hat hacker. Citizen journalist Aaron Phillips discovered the data breach occurred in the summer of 2021, when Huobi accidentally shared a file containing AWS credentials. However, after learning about the breach in 2022, it took Phillips an entire year to get the exchange to confirm that the breach had been fixed. “For two years, every user who logged into a Huobi website or app was potentially at risk of losing their account,” the citizen journalist wrote. “An attacker exploiting Huobi’s mistakes would have had the opportunity to carry out the largest crypto theft in history. ” Huobi data breach exposed 5,000 whales Huobi accidentally published the sensitive file in June 2021. According to Phillips...