F or a private detective working in Los Angeles, most investigations tend to follow a predictable pattern. You get a divorce case, or a custody case, and from the time the client pays the retainer, you know what the job will entail. You’ll follow a guy around taking pictures from …
Read More »Trump Campaign Says It Was Hacked, Suggests Iran Was Involved: Report
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign said on Saturday that it had been hacked, blaming “foreign sources to the United States,” per a report from Politico. The campaign cited a Microsoft report from Friday that Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential …
Read More »China-Linked Hackers Stole 60,000 U.S. State Dept. Emails in Microsoft Breach
Hackers linked to Beijing breached the email accounts of government officials this year and stole 60,000 emails from the U.S. State Department, a Senate staffer told Reuters Wednesday. The emails were stolen from 10 State Department accounts, according to the source, who works for Senator Eric Schmitt and was present …
Read More »Cyberattack Spree Hits Federal Government
Multiple federal government agencies have been hit as part of a recent wave of cyberattacks exploiting a flaw in a common file-transfer application, CNN reported on Thursday. Eric Goldstein of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a statement that the the CISA “is providing support to several …
Read More »Congress Members' Social Security Numbers Compromised in Healthcare Data Hack
The personal information—including social security numbers—of more than 56,000 people were compromised in a hack of a healthcare marketplace for DC lawmakers and residents. According to a report from The New York Times, federal investigators informed congressional leadership on Friday that they had identified the personal information of members of …
Read More »Meta Fires Employees and Contractors for Improperly Accessing Users' Accounts and Selling Them to Hackers
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has fired or disciplined dozens of employees and contractors — including Meta security guards — following an internal probe that revealed they were improperly accessing users’ accounts for reasons including bribery. The Wall Street Journal reports that, for years, the employees and contractors wrongly …
Read More »Hacker Who Stole Unreleased Ed Sheeran, Lil Uzi Vert Songs Sentenced to Prison
A computer hacker who made $147,000 stealing unreleased music from Ed Sheeran and Lil Uzi Vert was sentenced to 18 months in prison. Adrian Kwiatkowski exchanged the music by Sheeran and Lil Uzi Vert for cryptocurrency on the dark web after hacking into their cloud-based accounts, the Associated Press reported. …
Read More »How 'Baby Al Capone' Pulled Off a $24 Million Crypto Heist
T he break-in happened around 4 a.m., on a leafy street in the otherwise sleepy and sleeping village of Irvington, New York. Four men wearing ski masks and gloves, armed with knives, rope, brass knuckles, and a fake 9 mm, crept around the back of the large suburban home, their …
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