The Associated Press reports: In a bid to avert a government crisis, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven on Thursday reshuffled his minority Cabinet, replacing two members, after opposition parties demanded the ouster of three government ministers over one of the largest security breaches in the country’s history. Lofven says the heads of the interior and…
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Greece arrests Russian suspected of running $4 billion bitcoin laundering ring; BTC-e goes unexpectedly offline
Karolina Tagaris , Jack Stubbs and Anna Irrera report: A Russian man suspected of being the anonymous mastermind behind one of the world’s oldest crypto-currency exchanges and of laundering at least $4 billion has been arrested in Greece, police and sources said on Wednesday. Police sources identified him as Alexander Vinnik, 38, who was arrested…
UK: The National Crime Agency is sending hackers to rehab
Liat Clark reports: At the age of 13, Jake Davis was spending all day, every day on his bedroom computer at his Shetland Islands home. It would be another five years before he discovered an Anonymous chatroom and became part of the hacktivist group, going on to form his own group, Lulzsec. With his new…
UniCredit Says 400,000 Accounts Were Hacked, Exposing Data
Sonia Sirletti and Edward Robinson report: UniCredit SpA said hackers accessed about 400,000 client bank accounts in Italy, taking biographical and loan data in one of the biggest breaches in Europe to date. The breaches occurred in September and October of 2016 and June to July of this year, the bank said on Wednesday in…
Details of a million people across Yorkshire for sale on ‘dark web’
I am reluctant to link to this news report because of the damned stock hoodie image, but…. Ruby Kitchen and Chris Burn report: Across Yorkshire, the personal data of 942,609 people is listed for sale on an underground marketplace, with the highest number being in Sheffield, Barnsley and Rotherham. The illicitly obtained data – from…
Arrested Russian’s wife denies U.S. charge he is global hacking mastermind
Jack Stubbs reports: The wife of an alleged Russian hacker facing extradition from Spain to the United States has told Reuters he is being held in solitary confinement and that he denies the accusation that he masterminded one of the world’s biggest spam networks. Peter Levashov was arrested while on holiday in Barcelona in April,…