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Travelex being held to ransom by hackers

January 7, 2020 World Justice News 0

Hackers are holding foreign exchange company Travelex to ransom after a cyber-attack forced the firm to turn off all computer systems and resort to using pen and paper. On New Year’s Eve, hackers launched their […]

Thousands of students in Germany queue for new email password after cyber-attack

December 18, 2019 World Justice News 0

Some 38,000 students in Germany have been asked to queue in person for a new email password, after their university was hit by a cyber-attack. The students at Justus Liebig University (JLU) Giessen have been […]

Evil Corp: US charges Russians over hacking attacks

December 6, 2019 World Justice News 0

US authorities have filed charges against two Russian nationals alleged to be running a global cyber crime organisation named Evil Corp. An indictment named Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev – who remain at large – […]

Spying tools website taken down after UK raids

November 30, 2019 World Justice News 0

A website selling hacking tools that let attackers take over victims’ computers has been closed down after an international investigation. The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said 14,500 people had bought spying tools from the […]

US hospitals turn away patients as ransomware strikes

October 2, 2019 World Justice News 0

Three US hospitals have been forced to temporarily close their doors to “all but the most critical new patients” following a ransomware outbreak. “A criminal is limiting our ability to use our computer systems in […]

French ‘cybercops’ dismantle pirate computer network

August 28, 2019 World Justice News 0

A team of French police dubbed “cybergendarmes” has destroyed a virus that infected more than 850,000 computers worldwide, authorities say. The network of infected computers, known as a botnet, was controlled from France and is […]

Canada

Capital One data breach: Arrest after details of 106m people stolen

July 30, 2019 World Justice News 0

The personal details of about 106 million individuals across the US and Canada were stolen in a hack targeting financial services firm Capital One, the company has revealed. The alleged hacker, Paige Thompson, was arrested […]

Marcus Hutchins spared US jail sentence over malware charges

July 26, 2019 World Justice News 0

The British computer hacker who helped stop a major cyber-attack affecting the NHS in 2017 has avoided a jail sentence in the US over malicious hacking charges. In April, 25-year-old Marcus Hutchins pleaded guilty to […]

Baltimore ransomware attack: NSA faces questions

May 27, 2019 World Justice News 0

Politicians representing a US city struck by a ransomware attack are asking questions of the National Security Agency after claims it helped make the breach possible. The New York Times reported on Saturday that a […]

Instagram: Facebook probes breach of millions of influencer accounts

May 21, 2019 World Justice News 0

Photo sharing site Instagram says it is trying to find out how contact details of almost 50 million of its users were stored online in an unguarded database. TechCrunch, which broke the story, said it […]

Australia

Australian murderer loses bid to eat Vegemite in prison

October 26, 2026 0

A convicted murderer serving a life sentence in Australia has lost his bid to overturn a ban on prisoners consuming Vegemite – the salty yeast-based spread that has become a national symbol. Andre McKechnie argued […]

Human Rights

Patients in chains rescued from suspected illegal rehab centre in South Africa

October 16, 2026 0

A pastor and his wife have been arrested in South Africa after 200 people, some in chains, were found held at a suspected illegal rehabilitation centre in the north-eastern part of the country. The facility, […]

Human Rights

UK threatens to ban Eritreans over migrant return policy

October 15, 2026 0

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has threatened to ban all Eritreans from entering the UK if the east African country’s government does not accept more returns of small boat migrants and foreign national offenders. From Thursday, […]