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Colonial Pipeline paid 75 Bitcoin, or roughly $5 million, to hackers. The shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline triggered a cascading crisis that led to a jump in gas prices and panic buying at gas pumps.Credit...Erik S Lesser/EPA, via Shutterstock May 13, 2021, 5:30 p.m. ET Colonial Pipeline paid its extortionists roughly 75 Bitcoin, or nearly $5 million, to recover its stolen data, according to people briefed on the transaction. The payment came after cybercriminals last week held up Colonial Pipeline’s business networks with ransomware, a form of malware that encrypts data until the victim ...

Officer Who Gave $25 to Kyle Rittenhouse’s Defense Loses Job Lt. William Kelly of the Norfolk Police Department in Virginia was relieved of duty by city officials, who said his support for the Kenosha, Wis., shooting suspect undermined the public’s trust in law enforcement. Kyle Rittenhouse, left, during a demonstration in August in Kenosha, Wis., where, the authorities say, he killed two people.Credit...Adam Rogan/The Journal Times, via Associated Press April 21, 2021 A police lieutenant in Virginia lost his job this week after he contributed $25 to a legal-defense fund and express...

U.S. Imposes Stiff Sanctions on Russia, Blaming It for Major Hacking Operation Following years of wrist slaps under President Donald J. Trump, the new measures are designed to have a noticeable impact on the Russian economy. The Russian Central Bank headquarters in Moscow.Credit...Dimitar Dilkoff/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images April 15, 2021Updated 11:11 a.m. ET WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday announced tough new sanctions on Russia and formally blamed the country’s premier intelligence agency for the sophisticated hacking operation that breached American governme...

Twitter Hacker Pleads Guilty in Florida Court The 18-year-old is expected to serve three years in a juvenile facility in return for the plea. Graham Ivan Clark pleaded guilty on Tuesday to hacking high-profile Twitter accounts.Credit...Glenn Chapman/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images March 16, 2021 The young hacker accused of being the mastermind behind a breach last year of high-profile Twitter accounts pleaded guilty on Tuesday in a Florida court, agreeing to serve three years in juvenile prison. Graham Ivan Clark, 18, faced fraud charges after a hack that compromised Twitter accounts be...

The Most Serious Security Risk Facing the United States Credit...Yoshi Sodeoka By Jonathan Tepperman The Cyberweapons Arms Race By Nicole Perlroth Sometime last year, a shadowy group of hackers — now thought to be Russians working for that country’s foreign intelligence service — broke into digital systems run by Solar Winds, an American tech firm, and inserted malware into the code. When the company then sent out its next regular software update, it inadvertently spread the virus to its clients — more than 18,000 of them, including huge corporations, the Pentagon, the State Departmen...