CIBC owned Simplii Financial was the first to announce on Monday that hackers had accessed and stolen the personal information of 40,000 customers. Later the same day the Bank of Montreal announced it also had had its security breached by hackers who had gotten the personal information of 50,000 customers. Read more

Taylor, a startup application that wanted to bridge and link cryptocurrency exchanges with mobile technology by creating a trading application has suffered a major cyber attack. Read more

The Bank Of Montreal claimed on Monday it was contacted by cyber criminals who claimed that they were in possession of financial and personal information of a number of the bank’s customers. Read more

Goliath and Goliath is an entertainment and comedy agency that suffered a large hack recently. Hackers are said to have stolen R300,000 ($24,000) using phishing scams. Read more

An English man who hacked into more than a dozen businesses, stole payment card information, ran phishing campaigns that spoofed 100 different businesses, sold people’s financial details and published “how to” guides for hackers and fraudsters has been sent to prison. Read more

The Coca-Cola company announced a data breach incident this week after a former employee was found in possession of worker data on a personal hard drive. Read more

Afghan embassy sources told the BBC two staff members and a generic account received alerts from Google this month. Last week Amnesty International detailed attempts to install malware on computers and phones of activists critical of Pakistan’s military. Read more

“An unknown party with access to very large amounts of hashpower is trying to use ‘51% attacks,’” Bitcoin Gold forum poster Mental Nomad announced a week ago, “to perform ‘double spend’ attacks to steal money from Exchanges. Read more

The crime stunned the then-governor of Bangladesh Bank, Atiur Rahman. “It was like a terrorist attack, into the central bank,” he says. “I couldn’t believe it … because nothing like that … ever happened.” Read more