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Federal agents arrested Thomas Markle, father of the Duchess of Sussex, at a Florida senior care facility and charged him with keeping child sexual abuse material in California storage units, authorities said.
A postmortem published by Binance describes how a North Korean hacking unit worked for months, through a fake job offer, poisoned software and the exchange’s own internal AI tool, before stealing $6.34 billion on October 29.
Binance said it had replaced about 95 per cent of the assets stolen in the $6.3 billion attack attributed to North Korean hackers, as customers withdrew a net $3.64 billion in the first day of reopened trading.
A federal magistrate judge dismissed the criminal case against two former FBI counterintelligence officials charged with lying to Congress about the bureau’s Hunter Biden laptop investigation, citing no probable cause and questioning the timing of the charges days before the midterms.
The FBI blamed North Korea for the $6.3 billion theft from crypto exchange Binance, the largest cyber heist on record, as the company reported $3.64 billion of customer outflows after resuming withdrawals.
A 36-year-old Ukrainian living in Barcelona was sentenced to 70 months in US prison for affiliate roles in the Nefilim and Hive ransomware operations. A reward of up to $11 million remains open for the Nefilim boss, who is at large.
The FBI searched the Beverly Hills mansion of developer Stephen Cloobeck on Tuesday as part of the criminal investigation into former Rep. Eric Swalwell, who resigned his seat in April amid sexual misconduct allegations.
The Justice Department charged former FBI Director James Comey on Monday with transmitting national defense information and conspiracy, the third prosecution brought against him by the Trump administration.
Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, former leaders of the FBI’s disbanded Foreign Influence Task Force, were taken into custody and charged with making false statements to Congress about their roles in the agency’s investigation of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
