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Federal authorities said one of the primary motives for the scheme was to avoid paying more than $116,000 in child support to his ex-wife.
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A federal judge sentenced a New York man to three years in federal prison for hacking the accounts of dozens of female college students to access private nude photos, the Justice Department said Thursday. Nicholas Farber, of Rochester, pleaded guilty in February to working with a co-conspirator between 2017 to 2019 to access the school emails of dozens of female SUNY Plattsburgh students. He then leveraged access to those accounts in order to access students’ Facebook, Snapchat and cloud accounts from which he stole private nude photographs and movies. Farber then traded the images online with an unnamed number of individuals. He was charged with computer fraud and aggravated identity theft for the hacking. Farber, a SUNY Plattsburgh graduate, is also ordered to pay $35,430 in restitution to the school for the costs of investigating and resetting the compromised accounts and then notifying victims. Farber’s accomplice, Michael Fish, pleaded guilty […]
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Europol, along with the Spanish and the Romanian national police, has arrested 26 individuals in connection with the theft of over €3.5 million ($3.9 million) by hijacking people’s phone numbers via SIM swapping attacks.
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Tanvir Hassan Zoha, a 34-year-old security researcher, who spoke to media on the $81 Million Bangladesh Bank cyber theft, has gone missing since Wednesday night, just days after accusing Bangladesh’s central bank officials of negligence.
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The recent cyber attack on Bangladesh’s central bank that let hackers stole over $80 Million from the institutes’ Federal Reserve bank account was reportedly caused due to the Malware installed on the Bank’s computer systems.
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Typos are really embarrassing, but this time it saved the Bangladesh Central Bank and the New York Federal Reserve by preventing a nearly $1 Billion (£700 Million) heist.
Last month, some unknown hackers broke into Bangladesh’s central bank, obtained credentials needed for payment transfers and then transfer large sums to fraudulent accounts based in the Philippines and Sri Lanka. But…
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