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digitpatrox4 days ago
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An Ohio man guilty of Bitcoin laundering must forfeit over $400 million in assets

An Ohio man named Larry Dean Harmon will serve three years in prison and forfeit more than $400 million worth of cryptocurrency and other assets, the Department of Justice announced on Friday. Harmon was indicted in 2020 on money laundering conspiracy charges related to Helix, a darkweb cryptocurrency “mixer” service he ran. Also known as crypto “tumbling,” services like Helix…
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digitpatrox4 days ago
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Netflix served the Tyson vs. Paul fight to 60 million households

Netflix peaked at “65 million concurrent streams” during the boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul last night, according to Most Valuable Promotions, the promoter for the fight. Those streams went out to 60 million households globally, the group said in a press release shared with The Verge via email. That’s more than twice the traffic Netflix could see…
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digitpatrox5 days ago
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EU Fines Meta Nearly €800 Million over Facebook Marketplace

It’s been a tough week over at Meta HQ, as the European Commission has slapped the tech giant with another fine for tying Facebook Marketplace, its classified-ad service, to Facebook and using non-public advertising data. Authorities are demanding €797.72 million for Meta, which is essentially giving Marketplace an unfair advantage over competing digital storefronts. Marketplace was set up in 2016…
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digitpatrox5 days ago
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Breach at B2B data broker DemandScience exposes over 100 million records

Over 100 million leaked records of business contact information listed on the dark web linked to B2B data aggregator DemandScience might have been stolen from a third party, the company has told ITPro. Formerly known as Pure Incubation, DemandScience is an AI-powered B2B demand generation company that helps organizations find potential customers for upcoming campaigns. The firm scrapes the public…
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digitpatrox7 days ago
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1.1 Million UK NHS Employee Records Exposed

Over a million NHS employee records — including email addresses, phone numbers, and home addresses — were exposed online due to a misconfiguration of the low-code website builder Microsoft Power Pages. In September, researchers with the software-as-a-service security platform AppOmni identified a large shared business service provider for the NHS that was allowing unauthorised access to sensitive data through insecure…
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digitpatrox1 week ago
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Leaked info of 122 million linked to B2B data aggregator breach

The business contact information for 122 million people circulating since February 2024 is now confirmed to have been stolen from a B2B demand generation platform. The data comes from DemandScience (formerly Pure Incubation), a B2B demand generation company that aggregates data. Data aggregation is the process of collecting, compiling, and organizing data from public sources to create a comprehensive dataset valuable…
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digitpatrox1 week ago
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US indicts Snowflake hackers who extorted $2.5 million from 3 victims

The U.S. Department of Justice has unsealed the indictment against two suspected Snowflake hackers, who breached more than 165 organizations using the services of the Snowflake cloud storage company. Connor Riley Moucka and John Erin Binns are accused of using credentials, obtained with the help of info-stealing malware, to hijack Snowflake accounts that were not protected by multi-factor authentication Moucka…
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digitpatrox1 week ago
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HIBP notifies 57 million people of Hot Topic data breach

Have I Been Pwned warns that an alleged data breach exposed the personal information of 56,904,909 accounts for Hot Topic, Box Lunch, and Torrid customers. Hot Topic is an American retail chain specializing in counterculture-related clothing, accessories, and licensed music merchandise. The company operates over 640 stores across the United States and Canada, primarily located in shopping malls, and has…
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digitpatrox2 weeks ago
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Judge declines to block Musk’s $1 million voter giveaways

Elon Musk’s America PAC can move forward with its $1 million giveaways to voters after a Philadelphia judge declined an emergency petition from District Attorney Larry Krasner to block them. Krasner accused the PAC of running an illegal lottery and deceptively marketing the prize selections as random, even though “multiple winners that have been selected are individuals who have shown…
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digitpatrox2 weeks ago
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Elon Musk’s lawyer admits $1 million giveaways to voters aren’t ‘random’

A representative of Elon Musk’s America PAC said the winners of its $1 million voter sweepstakes aren’t randomly selected. The people who are awarded the checks are chosen to be paid “spokespeople” for the pro-Trump PAC, lawyer Chris Gober testified in a Philadelphia court on Monday, as reported by the Associated Press. Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner sued Musk and…
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