Hackers have stolen 26 million user logins for tech giants including Amazon, Apple, Facebook as well as vital payment information in the latest online security breach. Lastly, it contains 6.6 million desktop files, including 1 million images and 650,000 Word and .pdf files. The Justice Department on Monday recovered some $2.3 million in cryptocurrency ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline, Reuters reported. Roughly half of all organizations targeted by the cybercriminal gang paid ransom money with the average payment being around $1.9 million, Elliptic said. It is not clear which companies paid the hackers ransom money.

Source: Daily Mail June 10, 2021 21:36 UTC