Neowin News Feed for: Heist

Florida woman jailed over massive Microsoft "Genuine" Windows & Office activation key fraud

Sayan Sen — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:50:01 +0000

A Florida-based woman has been indicted over a massive fraud involving thousands of "Genuine" Windows and Office labels that often contain product activation keys. Read more...

The Big Bitcoin Heist: Thieves steal 600 bitcoin mining servers in Iceland

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 10:50:01 +0000

Dubbed the 'Big Bitcoin Heist' by the country's media, a group of thieves has stolen over 600 Bitcoin mining servers worth a total of $2 million over the past few months in Iceland. Read more...

Undisclosed amount of bitcoin stolen in NiceHash breach

Dreyer Smit — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 07:26:01 +0000

With Bitcoin reaching stratospheric heights, another security breach has struck, this time affecting the mining and trading platform NiceHash, which has lost a yet-to-be-determined amount of bitcoin. Read more...

$500,000 worth of Ethereum has been stolen by hackers who compromised Enigma

Richard Tyr Blewitt — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 09:02:01 +0000

Hackers compromised the cryptocurrency investment platform Enigma and managed to get people to send funds to them through the company's Slack channel, website, and mailing lists. Read more...

Russian Bitcoin exchange operator charged with 17 counts of money laundering

Dreyer Smit — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 07:48:01 +0000

One of the members of the exchange BTC-e has been taken into custody for alleged money laundering charges, and his role in the Mt. Gox bitcoin heist, which saw 850,000 bitcoins being stolen. Read more...

Hackers breach Best Western in data heist

Tom Warren — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:08:33 +0000

Hackers have broken into the corporate databases for best Western Hotels and may have stolen the names, addresses and credit card information of every customer who stayed with the international group since 2007. An investigation... Read more...

Swedish Bank Struck by Huge Online Phishing Heist

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:00:28 +0000

Swedish bank Nordea, the target of one of the largest online heists, has lost between 7 to 8 million Swedish kronor (a little over $1.1 million USD) over the course of 15 months. Security officials... Read more...