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Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo's emails hacked in Microsoft cyber breach: Source

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo's emails were hacked as part of the Microsoft cyber breach, according to a source familiar with the investigation. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo's emails were hacked as part of the Microsoft cyber breach, according to a source familiar with the investigation. Microsoft's Outlook systems were breach ed by Chinese hackers, according to the company. The breach was discovered in May. Raimondo’s Commerce Department has been imposing sanctions on China, and she met with her Chinese counterpart in May, promising better relations. MORE: The country has a major microchip problem -- and the Senate has a $52 billion solution This isn't the first time a cabinet-level secretary's email s were breach ed. The email s of former Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf were compromised during the SolarWinds hack of 2020, which is widely considered one of the worst breach es in U.S. History . SolarWinds was a hack that was carried out b...

Twitter hacked, 200 million user email addresses leaked

LONDON: Hackers stole the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on an online hacking forum, a security researcher said Wednesday. The breach “will, unfortunately, lead to a lot of hacking, targeted phishing and doxxing,” Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity-monitoring firm Hudson Rock, wrote on LinkedIn. He called it “one of the most significant leaks I've seen.” Twitter has not commented on the report, which Gal first posted about on social media on Dec. 24, nor responded to inquiries about the breach since that date. It was not clear what action, if any, Twitter has taken to investigate or remediate the issue. Reuters could not independently verify the data on the forum was authentic and came from Twitter. Screenshots of the hacker forum, where the data appeared on Wednesday, have circulated online. Troy Hunt, creator of breach-notification site Have I Been Pwned, viewed the leaked data and said on Twitter...