U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Trouble for the Site
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He called himself an ‘untouchable hacker god’. But who was behind the biggest crime Finland has ever known?
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Back to Top / Saturday, January 17, 2026, 3:20 am / permalink 18116 / 2 stories in 6 wks
Supreme Court Hacker Posted Stolen Government Data On Instagram
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Last week, Nicholas Moore, 24, a resident of Springfield, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to repeatedly hacking into the U.S. Supreme Court's electronic document filing system. At the time, there were no deta…
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Bitcoin forfeited as part of Samourai case was not sold and will stay in the strategic reserve, says top White House crypto advisor
Sarah Wynn / theblock - U.S. prosecutors did not liquidate digital assets forfeited by Samourai Wallet developers, according to the White House's top crypto advisor.
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RondoDox botnet exploits HPE OneView vulnerability on a massive scale
Berry Zwets / techzine - Check Point Research has identified a coordinated attack campaign targeting CVE-2025-37164, a critical vulnerability in HPE OneView. The RondoDox botnet is escalating from early reconnaissance to large-scale, automated attacks. Check Point has already blo…
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Utah man sentenced to three years for fraud, $5.4 million cash-to-crypto scheme
Brian Danga / theblock - Brian Garry Sewell sentenced to three years for defrauding investors of $2.9 million and laundering $5.4 million.
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Senate passes Defiance Act for a second time to address Grok deepfakes
Ian Carlos Campbell / engadget - The Senate has passed the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE ) Act with unanimous consent, according to the bill’s co-sponsor Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL). The bill lets the subjects of nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfak…
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Former 'bitcoin mayor' Eric Adams faces $3 million rugpull allegation after issuing NYC Token
Shaurya Malwa / coindesk - On-chain data revealed that a wallet linked to the token's deployer removed $2.5 million in liquidity, prompting accusations of a possible rug pull.
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Fintech Firm Betterment Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Send Fake $10,000 Crypto Scam Messages
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to "triple your crypto," according to a thread…
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Tether Freezes $182 Million in USDT to Support Ongoing Investigation
Maxwell Mutuma / parameter - TLDR Tether has frozen $182 million in USDT across five Tron blockchain wallets in response to a law enforcement request. The frozen funds, ranging from $12 million to $50 million per wallet, are linked to an ongoing investigation. Tether’s wallet-freezin…
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Instagram denies data breach: So whats up with those sketchy change password emails?
mashable - Instagram said there wasn't a data breach, but the company did fix a bug that led to an external actor sending password reset emails.
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Zepo Intelligence secures $15M to safeguard workspaces from AI risks
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Zepo Intelligence, the company redefining human-centric security, hasclosed a $15 million seed funding round, with participation from Kibo Ventures,eCAPITAL, and TIN Capital.Traditional cybersecurity ...
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An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5 million users
Jackson Chen / engadget - If you received a bunch of password reset requests from Instagram recently, you're not alone. As reported by Malwarebytes, an antivirus software company, there was a data breach revealing the "sensitive information" of 17.5 million Instagram users. Malwar…
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Back to Top / Saturday, January 10, 2026, 5:20 pm / permalink 17745 / 24 stories in 7 wks
Ledger confirms leak of customer data from third-party Global-e hack
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Crypto wallet company Ledger SAS confirmed today a data breach to a third-party leaked customer data, including names and contact information. Customers received an email from Global-e Online Ltd., an end-to-end e-commerce platform used by Ledger to sell …
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Alleged PS5 Jailbreak Method Spikes Prices for Old Star Wars Game on eBay
Tom Hawking / gizmodo - 'Star Wars Racer Revenge' is selling for hundreds of dollars.
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U.S. cybersecurity experts plead guilty for ransomware attacks, face 20 years in prison each — group demanded up to $10 million from each victim
tomshardware - Two former cybersecurity experts pled guilty to conspiracy to obstruct commerce by extortion for deploying ransomware against several victims. The perpetrators are facing 20 years in prison each, with sentencing set in March 2026.
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Apple assembly partner victim of a supply chain cyberattack
appleinsider - A Chinese assembler working for Apple was the target of cyberattacks in December, with the event potentially causing product line details to be leaked to attackers.Manufacturing for AppleApple's massive supply chain is a prime target for hackers keen to e…
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Ubisoft shuts down ‘Rainbow Six Siege’ servers following hack
Terrence O’Brien / theverge - Yesterday, Ubisoft confirmed that Rainbow Six Siege had been compromised and that it had shut down the game's servers and marketplace while it resolved the issue. The hackers managed to gain control over a significant chunk of the game's systems, includin…
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Chinese chipmaker CXMT in crosshairs of South Korean prosecutors over Samsung tech leak
scmp - Prosecutors in South Korea have indicted 10 people, including former Samsung Electronics executives, for allegedly leaking the company’s technology to Chinese chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT).The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office on …
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Spotify data breach: 86 million audio files leaked online
Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - A pirate activist group extracted Spotify’s entire music catalog and released approximately 300 terabytes of audio files and metadata across peer-to-peer networks. Anna’s Archive documented the leak on Thursday, covering 86 million audio files and 256 mil…
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Hacktivist Preservation: Archiving Spotify's entire music catalog
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