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Traders Settle Case Tied to Hack of SEC’s Corporate Database

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Two men accused of trading on information hacked from a government database will pay $425,000 to settle regulatory claims, a fraction of the illegal profits they were alleged to have earned.

The outcome is more evidence that the effort to punish those responsible for the 2016 hack—which embarrassed the Securities and Exchange Commission, from which the data was stolen—is winding down without dire consequences for the accused. The alleged hackers, who live in Ukraine, remain free. The State Department recently offered $1 million…

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Florida man charged with hacking into voter database and changing DeSantis’ home address

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Anthony Steven Guevara, 20, also accessed the voter registrations of U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James and basketball legend Michael Jordan, according to a statement from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, but did not make any changes.

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Paytm Mall suffers massive data breach as hackers gain ‘unrestricted access’ into database: Report – Moneycontrol

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Paytm Mall suffers massive data breach as hackers gain ‘unrestricted access’ into database: Report  Moneycontrol
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Security firm leaves more than five billion records exposed on unsecured database

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A massive database, containing more than five billion records derived from past security breaches between 2012 and 2019, has been left unprotected, without any password protection on the internet.

And who left it exposed? A security firm.

Graham Cluley