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The United States is preparing a “crackdown on Beijing,” after it was discovered that the recent Marriott data breach was perpetrated by Chinese hackers, according to a report.

U.S. federal authorities have indicted two Iranian nationals for deploying “sophisticated ransomware” from inside the Islamic Republic to extort hundreds of victims including hospitals, municipalities, and public institutions, a move that has caused over $30 million in losses, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday.

Hackers are reportedly attempting to sell the private Facebook messages of at least 81,000 accounts, after compromising the social network. The Hackers claim to have access to 120 million accounts in total.

China’s state-run Xinhua news service vented Beijing’s mounting anger at U.S. allegations of espionage and election interference by claiming it is the U.S., not China, that menaces the Internet as a “cyber predator.”

A security expert working for a U.S. telecom company reportedly uncovered further evidence of Chinese spy chips hidden on computer motherboards, Bloomberg Businessweek reported Tuesday, less than a week since the outlet revealed a massive “hardware hack” discovered in a secretive U.S. government investigation.

The Department of Homeland Security declared in a statement that there is “no reason to doubt” Apple and Amazon’s claims that China did not bug their server hardware, despite a Bloomberg News report which indicated the companies were compromised.

Bloomberg Businessweek on Thursday reported on a three-year investigation into computer hardware compromised with spy chips by Chinese military hackers. The full report is lengthy, some of the details remain classified since the investigation is still ongoing, and many particulars of the report are contested by the American companies involved. Following is a summary of the most important elements of the “Big Hack” story.

One of the UK’s leading, celebrity-backed anti-hunting groups is under investigation amid claims they attempted to hack the computer of the leader of the Countryside Alliance, a pro-hunting charity.

An NPR/Maris poll shows that one in three Americans believe a foreign government could change the outcome of the midterm elections.

Cybersecurity firm FireEye warned on Tuesday that Iranian hacking activity increased significantly after President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal. The firm tracked an especially vigorous “cyberespionage” effort against targets in the Middle East, U.S., and Japan through the month of July.

Qatar, a small monarchy on the Arabian peninsula that hosts American troops but has also funded radical Islamic groups, reportedly attempted to hack the emails of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and his wife, Debbie.

A Chinese state-owned company hacked Clinton’s email server, inserting code that forwarded a copy of almost every single email.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) defended President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday amid intense backlash from Democrats and Republicans.

On Monday’s edition of CNN’s New Day, Chris Cuomo repeatedly accused the Russian state of waging “war” against America via “election hacking” in 2016. He offered his analysis while reporting from Helsinki, Finland, in anticipation of a meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the indictment of 12 members of Russian military intelligence Friday for hacking Democrats’ emails during the 2016 presidential election, and noted there was no collusion alleged with any Americans.

A woman in Wisconsin was charged on Wednesday with hacking Facebook accounts on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS).

Hackers reportedly streamed a gay pornography video during an online House race debate for California’s 1st District Congressional seat.

A 16-year-old student has been charged with fourteen felonies after he hacked his school’s computer system to change his grades using a phishing campaign aimed at teachers.

Hacker Konrads Voits has been sentenced to seven years in prison for attempting to alter prison records so that another inmate could be released early.

PFLAG, an LGBT organization, has rescinded its “Straight for Equality in Media” award from MSNBC host Joy Reid, while she continues to double down on her excuses over newly-revealed homophobic blog posts.

The Department of Homeland Security slammed NBC’s evening news broadcast for “actively undermining efforts of DHS” to protect states’ election computers and databases from hackers.

The nation’s top intelligence official told members of Congress Wednesday that the intelligence community expects Russia to continue influence operations targeting the United States.

According to Norton Cyber Security’s 2017 insights report, cybercrime victims collectively lost $172 billion last year.

A new undercover Project Veritas video includes a former Twitter software engineer claiming Twitter bans “a lot” of users for the Chinese government, otherwise the company allegedly faces hacking attempts by the government.

Facebook has announced that a system bug may have revealed users’ personal phone numbers to advertisers.

Three Chinese citizens were indicted in U.S. federal court on Monday for attacking the computer systems of Siemens AG, Trimble Inc., and Moody’s Analytics in an effort to steal valuable corporate data.

The FBI failed to notify hundreds of Americans, including “scores” of U.S. officials, that Russian hackers were trying to break into their personal Gmail accounts despite knowing for more than a year that they were targets, according to a new report.

At some point, the American people are going to conclude, for the sake of their privacy and security, that we can’t let this much power be concentrated into the hands of a few arrogant, irresponsible, and, frankly, neglectful, individuals and their companies. This isn’t just corporate malfeasance causing harm to individuals; this is malfeasance that jeopardize our economic and even national security.

The Times of Israel’s website was hacked by a Turkish group on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.

The Hudson Institute, a Washington, DC, think tank, canceled a talk with Chinese whistle-blowing billionaire Guo Wengui this month after its website suffered a “Shanghai-based attack,” the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.