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Children's names, pictures and addresses stolen in nursery chain hack

Children's names, pictures and addresses stolen in nursery chain hack Hackers say they have stolen the pictures, names and addresses of around 8,000 children from the Kido nursery chain. A group of cyber criminals says it is using the highly sensitive information to demand a ransom from the company, which has 18 sites in and around London, with more in the US and India. The criminals say they also have information about the children's parents and carers as well as safeguarding notes. They cl

Hackers—hope to defect to Russia? Don’t Google “defecting to Russia.”

To the casual observer, cybercriminals can look like swashbuckling geniuses. They possess technical skills formidable enough to penetrate the networks of the biggest companies on the planet. They cover their tracks using technology that is arcane to most people—VPNs, encrypted chat apps, onion routing, aliases in dark web forums. They talk trash, extorting corporate ransoms in cryptocurrency, and they aim high, not flinching even at the prospect of stealing data on US presidential candidates.