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A former CIA employee was sentenced to 40 years in prison after carrying out the largest data leak in the agency’s history.
The culprit behind the CIA's largest data breach in history has officially been sentenced. The US Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York has reportedly officially sentenced Joshua Schulte to 40 years in prison as well as a lifetime of supervised release.
Department Of Telecommunications: The officer, however, said that telecom operators have informally shared with the department that the leaked information claimed in the ClouSEK report seems to be a compilation of old data sets of telecom subscribers and it is not due to any vulnerability in their system.
The cyber intelligence firm, which engages with government cyber security CERT-In, said that the breach came to light on January 23 and as part of responsible disclosure CloudSEK has informed the relevant authorities and organisations possibly impacted by the breach. "The data, available for sale, is compressed to 600GB and uncompressed to 1.8 TB, posing significant risks to both individuals and organizations. The threat actor has demanded USD 3,000 for the entire dataset," the report said.
IPhone users may be at risk of having their data and activities spied on through in-app ads and push notifications, as certain ads are being exploited to gather sensitive information and send it to security services.