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O'Connor, known by his online handle PlugWalkJoe, was part of a group that broke into dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts, including Apple, Binance, Bill Gates, Joe Biden and Elon Musk, to spread cryptocurrency scams in July 2020.

He also was ordered to pay $87,522.25 in restitution, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona said on Monday.

Android smartphones are prone to hacking due to a bug in one of the graphics processing units (GPU) within the devices: Google. Companies need to remain vigilant, follow upstream sources closely, and do their best to provide complete patches to users as soon as possible. According to SamMobile, Samsung`s Galaxy S22 series devices and the company`s Snapdragon-powered handsets aren`t affected by these bugs.

The habit of charging the smartphone anywhere can make you a victim of hacking. This can also empty your bank account. Police has advised people not to charge their phones in public places like bus stands, railway stations, small restaurants and charging stations. With this you can become a victim of juice jacking or charger hacking.

Vietnamese couple wiped off the data of Intercontinental Hotels Group for fun. The IHG group confirmed that it had been hacked. Both of them are hackers and they don't have any regret

Google transfers Rs 2 crore to a hacker by mistake. Hacker took twitter to inform Google about this mistake. He tweeted, "It's ok if you don't want it back".

The news of cyber attack is coming on the National Informatics Center (NIC), the largest data agency of India. The Special Cell of Delhi Police has registered a case and started investigation in connection with this attack.

The hacker has three large databases with information pertaining to at least 80,000 customers.

A member of the US National Security Agency's elite hacking team has been charged with illegally removing top secret materials, in an embarrassing breach for the crucial electronic espionage body.

Ransomware is a type of malicious software that carries out the cryptoviral extortion attack from cryptovirology that blocks access to data until a ransom is paid and displays a message requesting payment to unlock it.

After hacking emails and Twitter account of liquor baron Vijay Mallya and journalists Barkha Dutt and Ravish Kumar, member of hacker group Legion now claims to leak mails of 74,000 chartered accountants in the country

Two hackers allegedly from the Netherlands claimed to have broken into seven  Indian High Commission websites , publishing online the login details, passwords and database containing names, passport numbers, email-IDs and phone numbers of people of Indian origin, media reported on Monday.

The Bombay High Court on Monday posted for hearing on June 14 a petition filed by a Gujarat-based person, seeking CBI probe against former Maharashtra minister Eknath Khadse for alleged phone calls between him and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.

The Mumbai Crime Branch had earlier recorded the hacker's statement and eventually gave a clean chit to Khadse, following which he moved the HC, seeking a CBI probe.

The University of California Berkeley has notified 80,000 people of a possible cyber attack on a system that storessocial security and bank account numbers.

Mir's Twitter handle also tweeted pictures of his purported email account as well as banking details.

Security researchers say they have uncovered previously unknown attacks on routers which direct traffic around the Internet, allowing hackers to harvest vast amounts of data while going undetected by existing cybersecurity defences.

A member of Europe's oldest hacker collective, the Chaos Computer Club has claimed to have developed a method to copy fingerprints using a common digital camera.