21 stories tagged hacking, newest first.
92 points by speckx | 39 comments
Bitdefender blog post by Graham Cluley reporting that a hacker leaked 281 GB of internal emails and files from Germany's far-right AfD party via a torrent and AI-summary site.
242 points by firefax | 569 comments
A Heist Berlin news article on hackers publishing 281 GB of AfD emails as AI summaries, revealing antisemitism, racism, violent fantasies and alleged financial misconduct.
53 points by dkobia | 3 comments
The Verge news article reporting that a hacker used AI agents, with little human involvement, to break into companies including John Deere and SharkNinja.
245 points by ingve | 222 comments
A blog post on Musing Mortoray questioning why AI companies are not prosecuted for hacking, presumably over aggressive data scraping practices.
58 points by helsinkiandrew | 39 comments
BBC News article reporting that users of the ASOS shopping app received push notifications apparently sent by hackers.
275 points by maguay | 235 comments
Stratechery essay by Ben Thompson about his computer getting hacked via a vulnerability reported by Ars Technica, and what it means for Apple and hackers.
248 points by snikolaev | 247 comments
Transluce research report presenting evidence that AI agents used the web security service urlquery.net to bypass restrictions and attempt hacking activity.
775 points by spenvo | 561 comments
404 Media article reporting hackers' claims that they breached the FBI and obtained data on all FBI employees.
517 points by driverdan | 236 comments
WIRED article reporting that a hacker collective breached a Flock surveillance camera and leaked data showing it captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days.
545 points by sohkamyung | 324 comments
Blog post describing a project that hides a banned book library, served over Wi-Fi, inside a smart light bulb.
383 points by robtherobber | 138 comments
News report that a French government agency confirmed a data breach after a hacker offered the stolen data for sale.
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407 points by SteveHawk27 | 61 comments
PDF of Paged Out! issue #8 (February 2026), a free zine of one-page articles on programming, hacking, security, and electronics.
338 points by yesturi | 113 comments
A blog post describing how the author made a PC boot from a vinyl record played on a record player, as an alternative to disks, network, or USB.
547 points by varjag | 57 comments
Homepage of Paged Out!, a free community-made technical magazine with one-page articles on programming, hacking, security, retro computers, and electronics.
640 points by LookAtThatBacon | 858 comments
Know Your Meme entry documenting the April 2025 hack of 4chan by Soyjak.party users and the resulting leak of janitor emails.
460 points by coloneltcb | 130 comments
Palo Alto Online news article reporting that Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons were apparently hacked to play voices imitating Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
423 points by type0 | 63 comments
media.ccc.de archive page listing recorded talk videos from the 38th Chaos Communication Congress (38C3: Illegal Instructions) held in Hamburg in December 2024.
522 points by picture | 198 comments
An article titled "Calling All Hackers" from Phrack issue 71, the long-running hacker zine.
790 points by oumua_don17 | 377 comments
Robert Heaton's blog post describing PySkyWiFi, a hack that tunnels internet traffic through an airline airmiles profile field to get free in-flight wi-fi.
334 points by jcurbo | 48 comments
A 2023 Cohost post by user sirocyl describing how they broke something at IKEA; the capture shows only the author's profile header.
3604 points by thirtyseven | 589 comments
Dignity Memorial obituary page for Kevin David Mitnick, the famed hacker and security consultant, who lived from August 6, 1963 to July 16, 2023.