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Italy

Italian police arrest siblings for 'hacking online accounts of Renzi, Draghi and others'

The Italian postal police claim to have broken up a cyber-espionage ring that has allegedly been collecting sensitive data for years.

USA

Yahoo reveals one billion users hit in second cyber attack

Yahoo has admitted yet another cyber attack but this time one billion user accounts may have been affected.

Germany

Europol 'Operation Avalanche' strikes at global online crime network

Europol says a giant network of hijacked computers suspected of attacking online banking customers has been dismantled.

Germany

Deutsche Telekom 'hack' affects nearly a million customers

Hundreds of thousands of Deutsche Telekom customers in Germany had their broadband service cut off following a hack-attack on its hardware.

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USA

Hack means San Francisco travels for free

Commuters in the San Francisco Bay area were able to travel for free after hackers hit the network.

Europe News

Hackers target European Commission

Hackers have targeted the European Commission’s computer network – trying to overload and crash it.

USA

What we know about the Dyn cyber attack

Connected devices such as cameras were employed as part of the attack on US sites.

USA

Who broke the internet? CIA and FBI scramble to find authors of massive cyberattack

A huge cyberattack in America and Europe takes many vital or household internet names offline for several hours.

Sport

Russia denies involvement in WADA hack

Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko has firmly denied that his government had something to do with the recent hacking of the World Anti doping agency’s database that resulted in the confidential medi

Europe News

The Brief from Brussels: EU and UK negotiators in place for divorce

This is The Brief from Brussels, a daily round up of the top stories from around Europe.

Belgium

Cyberspace is officially a war zone - NATO

Cyber attacks against a member nation could trigger an Article 5 collective response by all 28 states involved.

Lithuania

Crimean Tartar event hit by cyber attack in Lithuania

Lithuania’s parliamentary website came under cyber attack on Monday just as a special session of the World Congress of Crimean Tartars was meeting to

Economy

Bangladesh cyber bank heist blame game underway

The blame game is underway in Bangladesh after computer hackers stole the equivalent of 73 million euros from the central bank and nearly got away with 10 times as much

Ukraine

Ukraine says cyber attack on Kyiv airport was launched from Russia

Ukraine says that a cyber attack on Kyiv’s main airport was launched from a server in Russia. Malware found in an airport computer has prompted a

USA

US charges three in massive hack attack

Three men, including two Israelis, have been charged in the US with offences linked to a computer hacking and fraud scheme dating back to 2007

United Kingdom

British telecoms giant held to ransom by hackers putting four million customers at risk

It is the biggest-ever cyberattack on a British company. Telecoms provider Talk Talk has had the personal details of some four million of its

Canada

Dating site AshleyMadison is victim of cyber attack

The Canadian dating website AshleyMadison has been attacked by hackers who have threatened to leak the details of around 37 million customers.

USA

US and China: "positive differences" at annual talks

Hoping to improve cooperation, U.S. and Chinese officials have ended annual talks with gains on financial issues but barely papered over differences

USA

Huge cyber attack hits US government workers

US officials say hackers have broken into government computers and may have stolen the personal data of four million current and former federal

Belgium

Second cyber attack in days on French media

A second French-speaking organisation has been hacked in a matter of days. Belgian newspapers Le Soir and Sudpresse, both part of Rossel media group