Crypto e-commerce platform Bitrefill accuses North Korea of stealing 18,500 purchase records

2026-03-18T08:52:02Zb6f646f5170c398f816f7f34be54824ebeba73876bb2f6482409dcce57800769
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What happened

Multiple high-impact cyber incidents and policy developments: Bitrefill says actors tied to North Korea’s Lazarus group stole ~18,500 purchase records including email addresses, crypto payment addresses and IP metadata; Medusa ransomware claims an attack that knocked systems at Mississippi’s largest hospital offline for nine days and also targeted a New Jersey county; a Georgia man was charged for stealing Apple account credentials to rob NBA/NFL players; the U.S. Energy Department will publish its first-ever cyber strategy focused on energy-sector resilience; and a Luxembourg court overturned

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