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12 February 2023, Berlin: Illustration: Hands typing on a computer keyboard. Photo: Annette Riedl/dpa (Photo by Annette Riedl/picture alliance via Getty Images)

‘A five-alarm fire’: Public schools have become a prime target of ransomware gangs that traumatize students by dumping their private records online

By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press

Microsoft

China government hackers worked for months to infiltrate Microsoft accounts for U.S. officials—and succeeded

By Frank Bajak, Matthew Lee, and others

NASHVILLE, TN – OCTOBER 14: Headquarters of Hospital Corporation of America, one of the nation’s largest hospital operators, is seen October 14, 2005 in Nashville, Tennessee. HCA was founded by the family of Senate Majority Leader Bill First, who is currently under investigation by the SEC for issues related to his holding, management and sale of shares of the company’s stock. (Photo by Rusty Russell/Getty Images)

Medical giant HCA Healthcare says personal data of 11 million patients in 20 states may have been stolen in a data breach

By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press

The mother of a student whose confidential sexual assault complaint was released online stands outside the Minneapolis Public Schools offices, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Minneapolis. Ransomware gangs have been stealing confidential documents from schools and dumping them online. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Ransomware criminals who hit schools are publishing kids’ confidential documents online

By Frank Bajak, Heather Hollingsworth, and others

Satya Nadella

Microsoft on major Outlook and OneDrive outages: We were hacked

By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press

FILE – Jen Easterly, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, speaks at the National Association of Secretaries of State winter meeting, Feb. 16, 2023, in Washington. U.S. officials say the Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyber-extortion gang’s global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Energy Department was one of the U.S. federal agencies breached by a Russian ransomware gang

By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press

China hacking

Google claims it caught China government hackers redhanded breaking into hundreds of networks around the world

By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press

Hacker

China-backed hacker group called ‘Volt Typhoon’ has been working to cripple American infrastructure, Microsoft says

By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press

FILE – In this image provided by U.S. Cyber Command, Army Major Gen. William Hartman, commander of U.S. Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force, speaks during a ceremony at U.S. Cyber Command headquarters at Fort George E. Meade, Md., on Dec. 19, 2022. Before the 2020 presidential election, Iranian hackers broke into to a system used by an unidentified local government to support its election night operations but were kicked out before any attack could be launched, according to U.S. military and cybersecurity officials. (U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Jon Dasbach/U.S. Cyber Command via AP)

The military says that a group of cyber soldiers stopped Iranian hackers from publishing unofficial US election results

By Christina A. Cassidy, Frank Bajak, and others

silhouette adult man hacker

Law enforcement just arrested 120 people in an international malware crackdown dubbed ‘Operation Cookie Monster’

By Eric Tucker, Frank Bajak, and others

FILE – The Federal Trade Commission building in Washington is pictured on Jan. 28, 2015. The online counseling service BetterHelp has agreed to return $7.8 million to customers to settle with the FTC for sharing health data it had promised to keep private — including information about mental health challenges — with companies including Facebook and Snapchat. The proposed FTC order announced Thursday, March 2, 2023, also limits how the California-based company may share consumer data in the future. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Counseling service BetterHelp to return $7.8M to customers in FTC settlement after it shared private health data with Facebook and Snapchat

By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – FEBRUARY 9: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy talks to media during a press conference following the European Union leaders summit at the European Council headquarters on February 9, 2023 in Brussels, Belgium. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky began a surprise mini-European tour on February 8, his second trip abroad since the outbreak of the war on February 24, 2022 after his visit to the United States in December. The Ukrainian president is due to meet European Council President Charles Michel on February 9, pleading to his allies to deliver combat planes to Ukraine “as soon as possible”, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected at the Brussels summit after his visits to London and Paris. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

President Zelenskyy calls out SpaceX chief who says the country has ‘weaponized’ satellite internet: Either support Ukraine’s ‘right to freedom’ or Russia’s moves to ‘kill & seize’

By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press

US Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a press conference to announce an international ransomware enforcement action, ate the Justice Department in Washington, DC, on January 26, 2023. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

‘We hacked the hackers’: FBI disrupts a notorious ransomware gang that extorted victims for millions of dollars

By Eric Tucker and Frank Bajak

FILE – An FBI seal is seen on a wall on Aug. 10, 2022, in Omaha, Neb. A hacker who reportedly posed as the CEO of a financial institution claims to have obtained access to the more than 80,000-member database of InfraGard, an FBI-run outreach program that shares sensitive information on national security and cybersecurity threats with public officials and private sector individuals who run U.S. critical infrastructure. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Hacker says they broke into FBI’s 80,000-member InfraGard database by posing as financial firm CEO

By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press

Elon Musk

Horrified Twitter onlookers see 2 scenarios: The lights going out at any moment or a long, slow death

By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press