HACKING

Sensitive financial documents from consultancy giant KPMG were found to be accessible with credentials not linked to the firm, the BBC has discovered.

Hacking groups linked to North Korea will continue to devastate the UK with major cyberattacks over the next year, former GCHQ director Robert Hannigan has warned.

US president Donald Trump's personal jet, as well as the one frequently used by vice president Mike Pence, is reportedly Boeing 757.

Just hours before Isis' "news agency" website Amaq was reportedly taken down, the site claimed it had beefed up security to handle "any type of hack".

The elaborate, 3D-printed mask reportedly cost about $150 (£114) to make and can bypass Apple's new Face ID security.

Last week, over 580 Parity wallets containing millions of dollars worth of Ethereum were mysteriously locked down and inaccessible.

From the return of WikiLeaks to the Nepal bank cyber-heist: Here are the biggest cybersecurity stories of the week from the IBTimes UK technology team.

The data exposure was caused by an unsecured Apache Hive database, which leaked extensive data about both customers and drivers.

The Dark Overlord hackers stole a trove of confidential photos of high-profile clients from the plastic surgery clinic last month.

The flaw doesn't depend on jailbreak or rooting, instead capitalises on a simple developer error to expose massive amounts of sensitive data.

The FBI's investigation into child pornography involved the agency hacking targets in hostile nations.

A cybercrime group is causing havoc in the US and Canada by hacking into the websites of police stations and schools and defacing them with pro-Islamic State propaganda.

Joseph Willner and his co-conspirators made at least $700,000 in profits through the hack-and-trade scheme

The use of two notorious strains of banking Trojan that are able to silently infect computers, steal login details and empty accounts has spiked in recent months.

The hacker reportedly claims that he can track international flight data, access tax records and Interpol searches.

The Russian hackers' new phishing campaign involves the use of a blank malicious document titled "IsisAttackInNewYork".

Personal information of scores of people was reportedly publicly leaked via the Scottish Appropriate Adult Network (SAAN) website.

Officials from the NIC Asia Bank based in Kathmandu have been scrambling in recent weeks to recover from a hack on its computer networks.

A Reddit user claimed that the UFC site is running the Coinhive javascript and secretly mining cryptocurrency.

SchoolDesk is currently working with various local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, to investigate the source of the attack.

Hackers were reportedly distributing the ransomware, which may be linked to Russia, via a new phishing campaign.