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NEW: U.S. and French authorities announced the arrest of five hackers allegedly part of the notorious cybercrime forum BreachForums.
U.S. accused Kai West of being behind the hacker name IntelBroker and a long series of breaches. France said it arrested four hackers suspected of running BreachForums.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/us-french-authorities-confirm-arrest-of-breachforums-hackers/
NEW: Iran's government has now admitted that it took down the internet in the country, arguing that it did to protect against Israeli cyberattacks.
I spoke to two Iranians who live abroad and can't communicate with their loved ones back home because of the blackout.
"I havenât heard from them in two days, but someone is supposed to update me. I hope everything is okay," Amir Rashidi told me.
NEW: The internet has collapsed in Iran on Wednesday, with one web monitoring firm saying the country is ânow in the midst of a near-total national internet blackout.â
âWe can only see that the traffic dropped â the data doesnât tell us why it dropped,â said David Belson, the head of data insight at internet infrastructure company Cloudflare.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/internet-collapses-across-iran-say-web-monitoring-firms/
New: Iranâs largest crypto exchange Nobitex said it was hacked and funds drained.
Pro-Israel hacking group Predatory Sparrow claimed responsibility for the hack, which saw the group steal and destroy some $90 million in cryptocurrency from the Iranian exchange.
NEW: Predatory Sparrow, a group that fashions itself as pro-Israel hacktivists, claimed to have hacked Bank Sepah, a large financial institution in Iran.
While we can't confirm that the group did indeed take down Bank Sepah, the group has in the past made credible claims over several high-profile hacks in Iran.
New: U.K.'s data protection watchdog has fined 23andMe for failing to protect U.K. residentsâ personal and genetic data prior to its 2023 data breach. The ICO said over 150,000 U.K. residents had data stolen in the cyberattack.
23andMe's bankruptcy hearing is expected later Wednesday (corrected).
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/uk-watchdog-fines-23andme-over-2023-data-breach/
Indian car-sharing marketplace Zoomcar has revealed that a hacker accessed the personal data of at least 8.4 million customers, including their names, phone numbers, and car registration numbers.
Holy shit. AP reports that the Trump admin. provided deportation officials with personal data and immigration status on millions of Medicaid enrollees. Data includes "addresses, names, social security numbers and claims data for enrollees" in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington DC.
https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-deportation-immigrants-trump-4e0f979e4290a4d10a067da0acca8e22
President Donald Trump's administration has released to deportation officials the personal data for millions of Medicaid enrollees, including their immigration status. That's according to an internal memo and emails obtained by The Associated Press. Trump officials have been reaching deep into communities across the country to ramp up deportations and fought for the health data on immigrants from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The dataset released this week includes the information of people living in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington, D.C., which all allow immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally to enroll in relatively new Medicaid programs that pay for their expenses using only state taxpayer dollars.
NEW: Four months after releasing iOS 18.3.1, Apple has published details about a zero-day that it fixed at the time, but did not publicize.
This is the iPhone zero-day used against the two European journalists targeted with Paragon spyware, according to Citizen Lab.
It's unclear why Apple did not publish information about this zero-day until today.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/apple-fixes-new-iphone-zero-day-bug-used-in-paragon-spyware-hacks/
OK, turns out there is a second journalist in Italy who got an Apple notification:
Zack Whittaker
Jagmeet Singh
