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After a prolonged sting investigation, Secret Service agents swoop down on organizers and prominent members of BBSs in 14 U.S. cities including the Legion of Doom, conducting early-morning raids and arrests. The arrests involve and are aimed at cracking down on credit-card theft and telephone and wire fraud.
Congressman Grayson, Lawrence Lessig, and Free Press CEO Craig Aaron spoke about Swartz and his fight on behalf of a free and open Internet at the event. [253] [254] Congressman Grayson states that Killswitch is "one of the most honest accounts of the battle to control the Internet – and access to information itself."
Anarchist hackers. Internet activism, hacktivism, or hactivism (a portmanteau of hack and activism ), is the use of computer-based techniques such as hacking as a form of civil disobedience to promote a political agenda or social change. [ 1 ]
If you think your account has been compromised, follow the steps listed below to secure it. 1. Change your password immediately. 2. Delete app passwords you don’t recognize. 3. Revert your mail settings if they were changed. 4. Ensure you have antivirus software installed and updated.
2020 Twitter account hijacking. At least 130 accounts affected. The bitcoin addresses involved received about US$ 110,000 in bitcoin transactions. On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [ 1][ 2] Twitter and other media sources ...
The 2012 LinkedIn hack refers to the computer hacking of LinkedIn on June 5, 2012. Passwords for nearly 6.5 million user accounts were stolen. Yevgeniy Nikulin was convicted of the crime and sentenced to 88 months in prison. Owners of the hacked accounts were unable to access their accounts. LinkedIn said, in an official statement, that they ...
Yahoo! data breaches. In 2013 and 2014, the American web services company Yahoo was subjected to two of the largest data breaches on record. Although Yahoo was aware, neither breach was revealed publicly until September 2016. The 2013 data breach occurred on Yahoo servers in August 2013 and affected all three billion user accounts.
Computer hacking. In July 2015, an unknown person or group calling itself "The Impact Team" announced they had stolen the user data of Ashley Madison, a commercial website billed as enabling extramarital affairs. The hacker (s) copied personal information about the site's user base and threatened to release users' names and personal identifying ...