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.
Israeli government hackers have been revealed to be behind the discovery of National Security Agency (NSA) tools on Russian anti-virus company Kaspersky’s network.
According to South Korean lawmaker Rhee Cheol-hee, North Korean hackers penetrated South Korea’s defense ministry in September 2016, pilfering documents that included both U.S. and South Korean war plans, reports to senior commanders, special forces deployment plans, and data about power plants and military facilities.
Visitors to the popular porn website PornHub may have been infected by hackers who hijacked the site’s “advertising supply chain,” according to a report.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hackers allegedly working for the Kremlin stole details about how the U.S. infiltrates foreign networks and defends against cyberattacks after a National Security Agency contractor took the classified material home and put it on a personal computer, according to a news report published Thursday.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo has tripled down on what was already the largest data breach in history, saying it affected all 3 billion of its users, not the 1 billion it revealed late last year.
NBC News reports: A private cybersecurity firm has identified what it says is a hacking group sponsored by the Iranian government that has targeted organizations in the U.S., the Middle East and Asia.
Virginia’s State Board of Elections has decided to scrap the current generation of electronic voting machines, judging them to be too vulnerable to hacking, ordering them to be replaced before the state’s gubernatorial election on November 7 of this year.
Voices outside the range of human hearing can be used to manipulate your phone without any need for hacking.
All legal fee donations to cybersecurity researcher Marcus Hutchins will be refunded following the discovery that the majority were made fraudulently with stolen credit cards.
The computer expert who managed to stop the WannaCry global cyberattack faces 40 years in jail over accusations he helped develop malicious software in 2014.
An email scam is targeting home buyers looking to close on properties in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, causing those who fall prey to it to lose their life savings.
The U.S. defense budget may fund “hacking for defense” courses at universities around the country, according to a report.
The United Arab Emirates orchestrated the hacking of a Qatari government news site in May, planting a false story that was used as a pretext for the current crisis between Qatar and several Arab countries, according to a Sunday report by The Washington Post.
As businesses become more reliant on computer technology, insurance companies have begun offering “cyberattack insurance” in an attempt to provide protection from hackers.
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Supervisors’ website was hacked to display a pro-Islamic State warning that President Trump will answer “for every drop of blood flowing in Muslim countries.”
“At least” one U.S. nuclear power plant has been hacked, according to a report.
