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News Articles: computer hacking

In Cleveland, Ohio, about 8,000 city employees — including the police and fire departments — are affected by the Kronos outage.

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  • Technology

Hackers disrupt payroll for thousands of employers — including hospitals

Hundreds, if not thousands, of workers have missed out on overtime and holiday pay in recent weeks. In Cleveland, city administrators set up a "war room" to deal with the paycheck backlog.

January 15, 2022
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  • Becky Sullivan
An alert on a suspected attack by state-backed Chinese hackers from the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in April.

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The U.S. Has Formally Accused China Of A Massive Cyberattack On Microsoft

The Biden administration, backed by U.S. allies, is publicly calling out Beijing for an attack this year on Microsoft's Exchange email server software that targeted computers worldwide.

July 19, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
Visitors walk past the giant word "Data" during the Guiyang International Big Data Expo 2016 in southwestern China. China says it's determined to be a leader in using artificial intelligence to sort through big data. U.S. officials say the Chinese efforts include the collection of hundreds of millions of records on U.S. citizens. The photo was released by China's Xinhua News Agency.

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China Wants Your Data — And May Already Have It

When COVID hit, a Chinese firm offered to set up testing labs in the U.S., which could have given it access to DNA data. The U.S. says this is part of China's effort to collect mass data on Americans.

February 24, 2021
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  • Greg Myre
Fireworks explode over the Kremlin and Red Square during New Year's celebrations on Jan. 1 in Moscow. The U.S. government says a widespread computer incursion into U.S. government and private computer networks was likely carried out by Russia.

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U.S. Security Agencies: Massive Computer Hack Is 'Likely Russian'

In its most detailed comment so far, the U.S. government says the breach of government and private company computer networks "will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate."

January 05, 2021
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  • Greg Myre
Kevin Mandia, the chief executive of FireEye, says the prominent cyber-security firm was hacked recently by an unnamed foreign country. FireEye helps protect government and private computer networks around the world. Mandia is shown here at a 2015 conference in San Francisco.

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  • Technology

Top Cyber Firm, FireEye, Says It's Been Hacked By A Foreign Govt.

The California-based company is often called by governments and companies around the world to protect against hacks and respond to breaches. FireEye acknowledged that some valuable tools were stolen.

December 09, 2020
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  • Greg Myre and
  • Shannon Bond

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