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Washington (AFP) - A Ukrainian national has been extradited to the United States, where he is accused of hacking and "trafficking in computer passwords," the US Justice Department announced Wednesday. Glib Ivanov-Tolpintsev, 28, is suspected of hacking into tens of thousands of computers and selling their access codes on the dark web, the underground area of the internet, the department said in a statement. Arrested in Poland in October 2020, Ivanov-Tolpintsev was transferred to the United States under an agreement between the two countries and presented Tuesday to a federal judge, who ordered...
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New York (AFP) - T-Mobile said Wednesday that hackers may have obtained sensitive personal information on more than 40 million current and past customers of the US wireless carrier. The stolen data included social security and driver's license numbers, which could be used for identity theft, T-Mobile acknowledged while indicating that no passwords or financial information was accessed. "Our preliminary analysis is that approximately 7.8 million current T-Mobile postpaid customer accounts' information appears to be contained in the stolen files, as well as just over 40 million records of former...
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Washington (AFP) - Last year, a northwestern US county paid $300,000 to recover data locked by hackers, opting like many victims to pay the ransom despite experts advising against it -- the same dilemma which has recently faced fuel behemoth Colonial Pipeline. "We had no phones, and no internet, and no computer system," former Tillamook county commissioner Bill Baertlein said during an online seminar. Authorities had studied the system to see if it could be unlocked without paying, but "we determined that we probably could not fix it." Colonial found itself in a similar quandary, after a ranso...
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Washington (AFP) - Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said he was more worried about the risk of a large-scale cyberattack than another financial crisis like that of 2008. The risks of a 2008-like crisis with a need for government bailouts of banks were "very, very low," the head of the US central bank said during an interview aired Sunday on CBS's "60 minutes." "The world changes. The world evolves. And the risks change as well. And I would say that the risk that we keep our eyes on the most now is cyber risk," he said, adding that that concern was shared by multiple governments and priva...
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New York (AFP) - The US Department of Homeland Security was the third federal department to be targeted in a major cyberattack, US media reported Monday, a day after Washington revealed the hack which may have been coordinated by a foreign government. The Washington Post cited unnamed officials who said that the DHS -- which is in charge of protecting the country from attacks both online and off -- had been added to a growing list of targets in the attack, including the Treasury and Commerce departments. A statement from DHS Monday did not confirm the report, saying only that it was "aware of ...
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