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Atlanta government ransomware attack. The city of Atlanta, Georgia was the subject of a ransomware attack which began in March 2018. [2] The city recognized the attack on Thursday, March 22, 2018, [1][3] and publicly acknowledged it was a ransomware attack. Due to Atlanta's national importance as a transportation and economic hub, the attack ...
Websites including that of Maldives' Home Ministry, Juvenile Court, President's Office were defaced. The Facebook page of Auditor General's Office was also compromised. [247][248][249][250][251] February: The website of Burger Singh, an Indian food franchise, was hacked by Pakistani hacker group "Team Insane PK".
Apple had previously challenged the U.S. Department of Justice's authority to compel it to unlock an iPhone 5S in a drug case in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn (In re Order Requiring Apple Inc. to Assist in the Execution of a Search Warrant Issued by the Court, case number 1:15-mc-01902 [68 ...
Phone hacking by news organizations became the subject of scandals that raised concerns about illegal acquisition of confidential information by news media organizations in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia between 1995 and 2012. The scandal had been simmering since 2002 but broke wide open in July 2011 with the disclosure ...
However, a series of civil legal cases and investigations by newspapers, parliament and the police ultimately saw evidence of "industrial scale" phone hacking, leading to the closure of the News of the World on 10 July 2011. However, the affair did not end there, developing into the News Corporation ethics scandal as wrongdoing beyond the News ...
Ledgers showing payments to private eyes that had been leaked to Harry's legal team from a government inquiry into phone hacking could only be used with the newspapers' permission or by an order ...
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA) is a United States cybersecurity bill that was enacted in 1986 as an amendment to existing computer fraud law (18 U.S.C. § 1030), which had been included in the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. [1] Prior to computer-specific criminal laws, computer crimes were prosecuted as mail and wire ...
Mr Turner was awarded a total of £31,650 in damages after the judge ruled his phone hacking and unlawful information-gathering case was “proved only to a limited extent”.