Matthew Lane, 19, entered into a plea deal on Tuesday to resolve charges filed in federal court in Worcester, Massachusetts, related to the hacking of two companies.
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Musk: There Is A ‘Massive Cyber Attack’ Happening Against X Following Outages
X owner Elon Musk has announced that his social media platform is currently being hit by outages due to “a massive cyber attack.”
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State Of New York Sues Allstate For Allegedly Not Disclosing Data Breach Of 165K New Yorkers
New York has alleged that the National General unit of Allstate (ALL.N) failed to disclose a major data breach, exposing customers’ driver license numbers. The state’s attorney general also argued that Allstate had not developed reasonable safeguards to protect drivers’ private information.
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Chinese Hackers Breach U.S. Treasury Systems, Access Unclassified Documents
A China state-sponsored actor affiliated with the Chinese Government recently hacked the U.S. Treasury Department’s workstations in a “major incident,” the agency announced on Monday.
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Losses from crypto hacks jump to $2.2 bln in 2024, report says
Funds stolen by hacking cryptocurrency platforms surged 21% from a year ago to $2.2 billion in 2024.
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Trump’s FBI Director Pick, Kash Patel, Reportedly Hit by Iranian ‘Hack-and-Leak’ Attack
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for FBI director, Kash Patel, has reportedly been targeted in an Iranian cyber attack, which was launched on Tuesday.
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