Guys, you’re killing us! LA Times homicide site hacked to mine crypto-coins on netizens’ PCs

A Los Angeles Times’ website is right now silently mining crypto-coins using visitors’ web browsers and PCs – after hackers snuck mining code onto its webpages. The newspaper’s IT staffers left at least one of the publication’s Amazon Web Services S3 cloud storage buckets wide open to anyone on the internet to freely change, update, and tamper.

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