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A German privacy watchdog says it has opened an investigation into clothing retailer H&M amid evidence that the Swedish retailer had committed “massive data protection breaches” by spying on its customer service representatives in Germany.
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U.S. officials have made advances in trying to prevent similar attacks from undermining the 2020 vote, but the potential threats have increased and some old problems have not been addressed.
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Cybersecurity experts said there are many questions still unanswered from an investigation commissioned by Bezos that said the billionaire's phone was hacked.
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The Greek government said Jan 21 that the official state websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service and several important ministries were briefly disabled by a cyberattack but have been restored.
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Researchers were able to access private personal information of more than 30,000 medical marijuana patients, recreational pot customers or dispensary employees in several states.
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A Russian national pleaded guilty Thursday to running a website that helped people commit more than $20 million in credit-card fraud.
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United Nations experts have called for an investigation by the United States and others into information they received that suggests that Jeff Bezos' phone was hacked after receiving a file sent from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's WhatsApp account.
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Jan. 22, 2020 is the deadline to seek cash payments and claim free services as part of Equifax's $700 million settlement over a massive data breach.
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Brazilian prosecutors accused U.S. journalist Glenn Greenwald of involvement in hacking the phones of officials involved in a corruption investigation.
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A computer security expert says he found that a forensic image of the election server central to a legal battle over the integrity of Georgia elections showed signs that the original server was hacked.
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The FBI, in a change of policy, is committing to inform state officials if local election systems have been breached, federal officials said Thursday.
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An Israeli court heard a case calling for restrictions to be slapped on NSO Group, an Israeli company that makes surveillance software that is said to have been used to target journalists and dissidents around the world.
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British and American officials are meeting as U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government prepares to decide on whether there's a future for Chinese equipment maker Huawei in the country's next-generation telecom networks.
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The FBI said it was taking steps to improve the accuracy and completeness of its wiretap applications for national security investigations and to provide better training for agents.
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An Albany New York airport and its computer management provider LogicalNet were attacked by ransomware over Christmas, officials said.
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The FBI asked Apple to help extract data from iPhones that belonged to the Saudi aviation student Mohammed Alshamrani, who fatally shot three sailors at a U.S. naval base in Florida.
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Las Vegas officials said Tuesday that that a cyber attack breached the city’s computer systems, but it wasn’t immediately clear if any sensitive data was compromised.
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Iran struck back at the United States for the killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani firing a series of surface-to-surface missiles at two Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops early Jan. 8th.
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Iran’s retaliation for the United States' targeted killing of general Qassem Soleimani is likely to include cyberattacks, security experts warned.
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A federal investigation didn’t turn up any evidence that cyber attacks were responsible for computer errors that disrupted voting in a North Carolina county in 2016, according to a DHS report.
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The convenience store chain is facing a wave of lawsuits over a data breach that affected its 850 locations along the East Coast.
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Authorities in Thailand say they are investigating an apparent online break-in by a computer hacker that allowed him to broadcast surveillance video from inside a prison in the country's south.
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RavnAir canceled at least a half-dozen flights in Alaska on Saturday following what the company described as “a malicious cyber attack” on its computer network.
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The Wawa convenience store chain says a data breach may have collected debit and credit card information from thousands of customers.
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Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden violated secrecy agreements with the U.S. government that allow it to claim proceeds from a memoir he published earlier this year, a judge ruled Tuesday.
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