Expedia Inc. subsidiary Orbitz.com has been hacked with customer details, including credit card numbers, possibly stolen from the site last year. Expedia revealed the hack Tuesday. It said in a statement that they had found evidence that an attacker had invaded Orbitz’s “legacy systems” between October and December last year, accessing 880,000 customer records from January 2016 and December ...

Bitcoin could be in a deep trouble from an expected direction after researchers discovered child pornography on the bitcoin blockchain, a copy of which many bitcoin users and related service providers download when trading the cryptocurrency. The researchers from the RWTH Aachen University in Germany found that about 1,600 files were currently stored in bitcoin’s blockchain. ...

“Try before you buy” is coming to the world of Android games, with Google LLC launching a new feature that allows games to be run without the need for them to be downloaded. Called Google Play Instant, the feature adds a “Try Now” button to supported apps that, as the name suggests, allows a given ...

U.S. President Donald Trump today banned Americans from trading Venezuela’s “Petro” cryptocurrency in a blow to what was already a dubious moneymaking scheme. The executive order, signed Monday, retrospectively dates to Jan. 9 a ban on all U.S. citizens undertaking any transactions, financing or other dealings in any digital currency, digital coin or digital token issued ...

Uber Technologies Inc.’s troubled self-driving car program has gone from bad to worse as one of its vehicles ran over and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, on Sunday evening. The victim, 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, is said to have been crossing a road outside a pedestrian crossing when an Uber test vehicle, operating in autonomous mode, ...

The price of Ethereum continued to drop over the weekend as investors feared that a continuing investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may result in a rapid decline in the number of initial coin offerings that use the cryptocurrency. Ethereum is both a smart-contracts-focused blockchain platform and a cryptocurrency in itself, although the ...

Reports that the Internal Revenue Service is coming after bitcoin investors has put the fear of God into the market, causing a selloff that pushed the price of the cryptocurrency down by thousands of dollars over the last few days. The fears relating to a crackdown by America’s taxman have their roots in a court ...

Twitter Inc. is set to join Facebook Inc. and Google LLC in banning advertising relating to cryptocurrencies, at least according to one report published Sunday. Sky News claimed that Twitter is set to implement a new advertising policy in the next two weeks that will prohibit advertisements for initial coin offerings, token sales and cryptocurrency wallets globally. The report ...

Free stock trading app maker Robinhood Market Inc. is raising $350 million in a late-stage round that brings its valuation to a stunning $5.6 billion. The Series D round was led by DST Global, according to a report Thursday in the Wall Street Journal. Robinhood, founded in 2013, rose to fame by offering the first and now most popular ...

Another day, another data breach in the medical industry. Today’s version comes from BJC Healthcare, a St. Louis-based nonprofit organization that runs two nationally recognized academic hospitals, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital. The data breach, which is believed to have affected at least 33,000 patients, does not appear to have been the result of hacking. Instead, it’s ...