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Russian pleads guilty in massive JPMorgan hacking scheme

Andrei Tyurin is the first to be convicted in one of the largest thefts of customer data from a single US financial institution in history.

Of the 2,300 archiving systems looked at, 590 were accessible from the internet, exposing 24 million medical records from 52 countries.

Included are deep details on 7 million minors, one grownup named Julian Assange, and perhaps a few million deceased Ecuadorians.

According to a new report, nearly 30% of all US calls placed in the first half of 2019 were garbage, as in, nuisance, scam or fraud calls.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr.: If he’s guilty, he’ll face the music. Heh. Heh.

Crooks made bogus accounts to buy tickets with fake credit cards, resold them to unsuspecting buyers, and left the database-o-fraud wide open.

Fedir Oleksiyovich Hladyr is the first member of the infamous cybercrime network to be found guilty of hacking-related crimes in a US court.

Facebook confirmed the breach, claiming that the total number of users in the database was 210 million.

What should be a private key used to vouch for the ‘Free Basics by Facebook’ app was used to sign unrelated apps.

The tense stand-off between privacy campaigners and the popular mobile payment app Venmo has taken another turn for the worse.