• US State Department says 60,000 emails taken in alleged Chinese hack

    State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that the State Department has not formally assigned blame but had no reason to doubt Microsoft's finding that the hackers were from China. A State Department report issued Thursday warned in dire terms about China's efforts in the information sphere, saying that Beijing's "digital...

  • Hackers demand $10 mn for stolen Australian health records

    Medibank, Australia's largest private health insurer, confirmed this week that hackers had accessed the information of 9.7 million current and former clients, including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. The hackers on Thursday uploaded a second batch of files to a dark web forum, with more sensitive details about hundreds of Medibank...