How much money do you think a bunch of Brazilian hackers could raise on a crowdfunding website? The bright minds behind Ônibus Hacker, which translates roughly to ‘Hacker Bus’, raised US$38,000 and found over 400 backers in less than two months. Here’s how: From Hacker Transparency to Hacker Bus TheHacker Bus projectwas born from the Brazilian online communityTransparência Hacker, ‘Hacker Transparency’. It was created in 2009 around a HackDay in São Paulo, and the group’s discussion list now counts over 700 members....

The hacker that gained access to the AT&T iPad subscriber database has pled guilty to the charges brought against him,reportsReuters. The hacker hadillegally gained accessto an AT&T database and stolen the subscriber information of 120,000 iPad users on the network. Daniel Spitier, 26, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count of identity theft Thursday. Spitier did not act alone and his co-defendant Andrew Auernheimer is also charged. The two used abrute force attackto extract data about iPad users from AT&T’s servers....

Update 12/08/2021 4.40 IST: According to a report fromReuters, the hacker has now returned more than half of the money. Hackers stealing cryptocurrency is aregulareventin the last couple of years. But in a bizarre incident, a hacker who stole $600 million worth of cryptocurrency earlier this week, returned $260 million of them. Here’s what happened. A hacker took advantage of a bug inPoly Network, a decentralized finance platform that lets you exchange various tokens, and stole$600 million in various digital currencies....

CBCis reporting that foreign hackers successfully penetrated the computer systems of the Canadian federal government. Last month was the first sign that the system had been compromised. The attacks, said to have come from China, hit both the Finance Department and the Treasury Board. Although no statements have been made aside from the government saying that there was an “attempt to access”, the CBC’s sources confirm that the hackers were able to remotely control computers in the offices of senior government executives, hoping to unlock entire government data systems....

The troubles just don’t stop for Sony. Now hacking group LulzSec isclaimingto have stolen the user account information of over 1 million users and released samples of it in a torrent file. You can read the hacking group’s announcementhere. LulzSec is calling the hacking ‘Sownage’ and is saying that the torrent file, which we will not directly link here, includes collections of data stolen from internal Sony networks and websites that they accessed ‘easily’....