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UPDATE: A member of ShinyHunters told us that they took the stolen European Commission's data directly from TeamPCP. In other words, the hackers are hacking each other now.
NEW: CERT-EU accused cybercrime gang TeamPCP of being behind the recent European Commission hack.
It also accused ShinyHunters of being behind the leak of the stolen data, which was around 92 gigabytes, and contained full names, email addresses, and some email content.
/me opens laptop: good morni....
* sirens wailing *
* distant sounds of explosions *
* helicopter going down *
* Dido singing in background *
/closes laptop: and that's enough internet for, yep, 8:23 am
New, by me: Telehealth giant Hims & Hers confirmed its customer service ticketing system was hacked. A spokesperson said it was a social engineering attack. The hacker stole mostly customer support tickets, including customer names and contact information, but also the contents of customer requests.
New, by me: A popular Canadian money transfer app exposed thousands of driver's licenses and passports to the open web. Anyone with a link was able to view the data in their browser.
The data goes back to September 2020, and was updating daily until the server was secured this week.
Big news: ICE now has spyware, the agency's acting director confirms.
The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told lawmakers that the use of Paragon spyware is necessary to counter terrorists’ “thriving exploitation of encrypted communications platforms.”
NEW: ICE confirms that it's planning to use Paragon's spyware to counter “foreign terrorist organizations’ thriving exploitation of encrypted communication platforms.”
ICE's acting director Todd Lyons said the agency will “comply with constitutional requirements,” without specifying what those are.
It's unclear if the agency’s criminal investigative unit Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has already used the spyware.
The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told lawmakers that the use of Paragon spyware is necessary to counter terrorists’ “thriving exploitation of encrypted communications platforms.”
NEW: WhatsApp alerted around 200 users who were tricked into installing a fake app that was actually government spyware.
The company accused Italian spyware maker SIO of being behind the app, and announced it plans to send the company "a formal legal demand to stop any such malicious activity."
Not a joke: Hasbro was hacked. The American toymaking giant said in an SEC filing that it may take weeks for it to recover. Much of the company's website appears down.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/hasbro-hacked-may-take-several-weeks-to-recover/
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
TechCrunch
