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US sentences Chinese hacker for stealing military information
A Chinese businessman who pleaded guilty to hacking sensitive military information has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison in the US. Su Bin admitted collaborating with hackers in the Chinese military to steal data from US defence companies between 2008 and 2014. He was arrested in Canada in 2014 and extradited to the...
‘Celebgate’ nudes hacker pleads guilty
A US man has pleaded guilty to running a phishing campaign to steal private pictures and videos from film and TV stars. Edward Majerczyk, of Chicago, was arrested after police investigated the 2014 "celebgate" affair. Nudes of more than 100 celebrities, including Rihanna and Jennifer Lawrence, were leaked in that...
Apple might NOT have to unlock San Bernardino killer’s phone… as ‘hacker’ approaches FBI
APPLE may not be forced into unlocking the phone belonging to one of the jihadis behind the December terror attacks in California because of a possible hack. A stand-off has between Apple and the FBI has been intensifying because of the tech giant’s refusal to open Syed Farook’s iPhone. Farook and his wife Tashfeen...
Hacker exposes private data of America’s biggest police union
A hacker has breached the computer systems of the Fraternal Order of Police, the biggest police union in the US. Files containing private information of officers, private forum posts and contracts were included in the data dump. The anonymous hacker shared the data as a 2.5 GB torrent file on a blog called Cthulhu on Thursday,...