Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg's voices
The crosswalk buttons, which include audio alerts, were hacked over the weekend.
OCC Notifies Congress of Incident Involving Email System
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today notified Congress of a major information security incident, as required by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act. This finding is the result of internal and independent third-party reviews of OCC emails and email attachments that were subject to unauthorized access. On February 11, 2025, the OCC learned of unusual interactions between a system administrative account in its office automation environment and OCC user mailboxes. On February 12, the OCC confirmed the activity was unauthorized and immediately activated its incident response protocols which include initiating an independent third-party incident assessment and reporting the incident to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. On February 12, the OCC disabled the compromised administrative accounts and confirmed that the unauthorized access had been terminated. The OCC provided public notice of the incident on February 26.
China Hacked Treasury Dept. in ‘Major’ Breach, U.S. Says
The department notified lawmakers of the episode, which it said was linked to a state-sponsored actor in China. In a letter informing lawmakers of the episode, the Treasury Department said that it had been notified on Dec. 8 by a third-party software service company, BeyondTrust, that the hacker had obtained a security key that allowed it to remotely gain access to certain Treasury workstations and documents on them
Chinese Microsoft hackers also hit GOP Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska
Rep. Don Bacon tweeted Monday that he had been notified by the FBI that his emails had been hacked.