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Global
7.6

Hong Kong woman loses HK$2.5M in sophisticated online banking scam via fake refund

A Hong Kong housewife was defrauded of HK$2.5 million after responding to a Facebook advertisement for collagen drinks. The scammer used a social engineering tactic—offering a fake refund through a fraudulent banking portal—to obtain her online banking credentials and drain her accounts. The incident highlights evolving e-commerce fraud tactics that exploit victim trust in refund processes.

South China Morning Post·HK·about 3 hours ago
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Tech
7.4

Anthropic Accidentally Releases Claude Code Source via Packaging Error

Anthropic confirmed it accidentally released ~500,000 lines of internal source code for Claude Code through a misconfigured software update, attributing the incident to human error rather than a security breach. The exposed code, quickly mirrored to GitHub, relates to Claude Code's internal architecture but does not include sensitive customer data, credentials, or the underlying Claude model weights. The incident generated significant social media attention (29M+ X views) though the code's value is limited given prior reverse-engineering and a similar February 2025 exposure.

Dawn (Pakistan)·US·about 3 hours ago
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