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Hackers who crippled a French hospital and stole a trove of data last month have released personal records of patients online, officials have confirmed.
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A German law requiring telecoms companies to retain customer data is a breach of EU legislation, a European court ruled Tuesday, prompting the justice minister to vow an overhaul of the rules.
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Starbucks Singapore said Sept. 16 that its customer database was breached online, with local media reporting that 200,000 people's information was stolen.
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The US Department of Justice announced an indictment Wednesday against three Iranian hackers who used ransomware to extort a battered women's shelter and a power company.
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Twitter's former security chief, Peiter Zatko said he tried to alert management to grave vulnerabilities to hacking or data theft, to no avail.
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Respected in cybersecurity circles, former Twitter security chief Peiter "Mudge" Zatko is a wild card in Elon Musk's legal gambit to break a $44 billion deal to buy the social network.
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Albania has suffered a new cyberattack, the country's interior ministry said on Saturday, blaming Iran which Tirana also accused of an earlier assault on its digital systems.
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Iran on Saturday strongly condemned a US decision to impose sanctions on its intelligence ministry, blamed for a major cyber attack on NATO ally Albania.
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Elon Musk added a severance payment made by Twitter to a whistleblower to the list of reasons he feels entitled to walk away from his $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform.
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NATO condemned a cyberattack on Albania that Tirana and Washington blamed on Iran, and pledged to bolster the alliance member's defenses against hackers.
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Shares in cybersecurity company Darktrace crashed more than 30 percent after US private equity firm Thoma Bravo ended its takeover interest in the UK company.
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A man employed as a cleaner in Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz's home was sentenced to three years' prison for attempting to spy for Iran-linked hackers.
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China has accused the United States of launching "tens of thousands" of cyberattacks on China and pilfering troves of sensitive data, including from a public research university.
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A judge told Twitter to surrender more data to Elon Musk on fake accounts, a key issue the billionaire is using to try to cancel his buyout bid.
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Elon Musk's lawyers jumped on the revelations of a Twitter whistleblower to try to force the platform to surrender vast amounts of information for their fight to cancel the billionaire's buyout bid.
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Google is breaking EU law by sending users of its email service Gmail direct advertising messages, activists said in a complaint sent to French regulators.
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Twitter misled users and federal regulators about glaring weaknesses in its ability to protect personal data, the platform's former security chief claimed in whistleblower testimony.
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Israel's NSO Group, which makes Pegasus spyware that is controversial worldwide, said Sunday its CEO was leaving his post as part of a reorganization.
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Estonia said it had thwarted a major wave of cyber attacks against public and private institutions, as Russian hackers claimed responsibility.
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Shares in British cyber security firm Darktrace soared Tuesday, reflecting a possible takeover worth several billion pounds by a US private equity firm.
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Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sued the US Central Intelligence Agency and its former director Mike Pompeo, alleging it recorded their conversations and copied data from their phones and computers.
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Former Twitter worker Ahmad Abouammo was found guilty on of spying for Saudi officials keen to unmask critics on the platform.
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The United States placed sanctions on Tornado Cash, a leading "crypto mixer" for transactions in virtual currency that US officials describe as a hub for laundering stolen funds, including by North Korean hackers.
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Convenience store chain, 7-Eleven, said that it had closed its outlets in Denmark after a suspected hacker attack knocked out their cash tills.
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BTC-e operator Alexander Vinnik, a Russian citizen, has been extradited by Greece to the United States hours after his release from a French jail.
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