The file-sharing app launched 25 years ago and unleashed a wave of piracy that would shake Hollywood to its core.

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In a major breach in April, someone leaked a copy of the next ‘Avatar’ installment, prompting a panic at the studio. Now the alleged culprit — a 26-year-old hacker who also hit the NFL — has been ...

The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions ...

Meta’s AI support chatbot proved unusually helpful to hackers looking to steal and resell notable Instagram accounts—the hackers simply asking the bot to change the accounts’ associated email ...

US officials suspect Iranian hackers are behind a series of breaches of systems that monitor the amount of fuel in storage tanks serving gas stations in multiple states, according to multiple sources ...

One of the world's most prolific ransomware operations has itself been breached, offering unique insight into its inner workings. In only the first five months of 2026, the Russian cybercriminal gang ...

The company that operates online learning system Canvas said it struck a deal with hackers to delete the data they pilfered in a cyberattack that created chaos for students, many of them in the middle ...

Regular internet users and corporations are not the only victims of malicious hackers. Sometimes, the hackers themselves get hacked. That is what happened in an unusual hacking campaign, where an ...

The '90s were a special time, with hacking themes abound. The internet was still new and hadn't yet been taken over by corporations. Computing still had a positive mystique around it as something ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The person behind the anonymous X account ImStillDissin figured he was just trolling when he leaked two minute-long clips of the ...