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All this came as the Prime Minister made the extraordinary suggestion that Mr Murdoch's son and heir apparent James had «questions to answer» to police after admitting paying hush money to victims of hacking by the News of the World.

Not exact matches

As reported by WIRED, HBO fell victim to several hacks over the summer, most notably involving several leaked «Game of Thrones» scripts and episodes.

Previous AP reporting found that all but one of the site's victims had been targeted by the hacking group before their emails were dumped online.

Rupert Murdoch's media empire on Thursday shut down the 168 - year - old muckraking tabloid, which has been engulfed by allegations its journalists paid police for information and hacked into the phone messages of celebrities, young murder victims and even the grieving families of dead soldiers.

Uber, which is working to vindicate itself under new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi following a string of scandals, faced a setback after it was revealed by Bloomberg in a Nov. 21 report that the company was a victim of a hacking incident in October 2016 — and chose to cover it up by paying $ 100,000...

«It's important for the victims of phone hacking that this has now been properly dealt with by the courts; and it matters for us all that we have a free and vibrant press which operates within the law,» he said.

By March 2010, News International had spent over # 2 million settling court cases with victims of phone hacking.

Among 17 phone - hacking victims given public apologies by News International in the High Court were Sarah, Duchess of York, actors Hugh Grant and Christopher Eccleston, the Catholic parish priest of singer Charlotte Church, singer James Blunt, Uri Geller, Geoffrey Robinson, the former Labour minister, and Colin Stagg, the man wrongly accused of the murder of Rachel Nickell.

He will reportedly use part of the # 40,000 in damages paid by News Group Newspapers over his status as a phone - hacking victim to fund his campaign, Sky News reported.

A submission to the court by the claimants» lawyers said: «The Metropolitan police misled the claimants and the wider public by stating that there was only «a handful» of victims; and that, where there was evidence of hacking, victims were told.

12:55 - Murdoch appears to misunderstand an invitation from Leveson to talk about the victims of phone - hacking by talking about News of the World ex-employees instead.

Bryant, who was compensated with # 30,000 by the newspaper company after it was revealed he was a victim of phone hacking by the News of the World, said he also believed the move was premature given the Crown Prosecution Service is said to be still considering corporate charges against News Corp..

A letter from the victims, organised by the Hacked Off campaign, makes their alarm clear after a series of reports suggesting David Cameron will give newspaper editors another chance to make self - regulation work — even if Lord Justice Leveson's final conclusions recommend otherwise.

Mr Bryant had suggested Mr Yates had misled the committee by claiming that there were only up to 12 victims of phone - hacking at the News of the World, during the investigation which eventually led to the conviction of Glenn Mulcaire and Clive Goodman.

A senior Scotland Yard detective has admitted he let down the victims of the News of the World phone - hacking scandal by too readily dismissing calls to reopen the case.

, a retro platforming game inspired by North Korea and starring Kim Jon Un, claim their studio are «victims of a hack inspired by the attack on Sony.»

The lawsuit, represented by law firm Sotos LLP, is seeking $ 550 million in damages on behalf of Canadian victims of the Equifax hack.

While this will slow down brute hackers, it's more of a begrudging attempt by Microsoft just to make Jason Coutee and other «victims» of brute hacking look erroneous.

However, Steven Heffer, partner at Collyer Bristow, which acted for many of the celebrities affected by phone hacking, said: «It is astonishing that the government is abandoning it promises to victims of the phone - hacking scandal.»

By concealing the hack and paying off the hackers Uber breached US laws which require notification of people who are the victim of data compromises (similar laws will come into the UK in May 2018).

Counter-arguments that such hacking back action should be left to the police, would be answerable by the need to follow the attack back immediately, being the time when finding the attacker was most opportune — like shooting back at the spot whereat the intended victim sees the flash of the attacker's gun before the attacker is gone or shoots again.

Plaintiff LabMD Inc., a cancer - screening firm, says it went out of business after falling victim to a «shakedown scheme» by a cybersecurity firm that hacked the lab's files — and then reported it to the FTC when it refused to pay for «remediation» services.

If you have been told by the police that you were a victim of phone hacking by the Mirror, or if you would like to discuss a potential phone hacking claim, please get in touch.

Cybersecurity is a critical topic as people scramble to address the increasing danger of being hacked; being infected by malware such as Trojans, worms, and key loggers; or becoming the latest victim of ransomware that holds digital data hostage until they pay the ransom for the decryption of locked data or the physical theft of a laptop, smartphone, or USB device.

Nikkei writes that 16 virtual currency exchanges and 3 companies with crypto wallets — not noting any by name — were the victims of all of the 2017 recorded crypto hacks, according to the NPA.

XEM / USD price recovered slightly due to the announcement by Coincheck cryptocurrency exchange stating that they had refunded at least 260,000 customers who were victims of the hack attack that affect NEM holders amounting to losses of over $ 530 million.

By manipulating the login process and entering the victim's email address instead of their own, it was possible to hack into the victim's account and take control of all LG SmartThinQ devices owned by the user, including the Hom - Bot robot vacuum cleaner, refrigerators, ovens, dishwashers, washing machines and dryers, and air conditioning units.&raquBy manipulating the login process and entering the victim's email address instead of their own, it was possible to hack into the victim's account and take control of all LG SmartThinQ devices owned by the user, including the Hom - Bot robot vacuum cleaner, refrigerators, ovens, dishwashers, washing machines and dryers, and air conditioning units.&raquby the user, including the Hom - Bot robot vacuum cleaner, refrigerators, ovens, dishwashers, washing machines and dryers, and air conditioning units.»