Following three days of deliberations, a federal jury late Thursday afternoon convicted a 71-year-old grandmother on four criminal counts for spending 10 minutes inside the U.S. Capitol on the day of the Jan. 6, 2021, breach. Rebecca Lavrenz was captured on video surveillance entering the Capitol building through the East Rotunda doors, walking around the […]
NEW YORK—The theft of sensitive information belonging to millions of AT&T’s current and former customers has been recently discovered online, the telecommunications giant said this weekend. In a Saturday announcement addressing the data breach, AT&T said that a dataset found on the “dark web” contains information including some Social Security numbers and passcodes for about […]
A woman who worked for multiple members of Congress after the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol has been charged with participating in the breach. Isabella DeLuca was arrested in Irvine, California on March 15 on charges of theft of government property, parading in a Capitol building, and disorderly conduct in a restricted […]
A former software engineer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for carrying out the “largest data breach” of classified materials in the agency’s history. He also faced charges related to child abuse imagery, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced. Joshua Schulte, a 35-year-old former CIA programmer, was […]
A pro-Palestinian protest in the nation’s capital on Jan. 13 led to clashes between protesters and riot police, during which an exterior gate of the White House was nearly breached. Police and federal agents reportedly waited near the White House in anticipation as protesters crashed toward the reinforced gate amid attempts by some rioters to […]
NEW YORK—Hackers accessed Xfinity customers’ personal information by exploiting a vulnerability in software used by the company, the Comcast-owned telecommunications business announced this week. In a Monday notice to customers, Xfinity said there was unauthorized access to internal systems as a result of this vulnerability—which was previously announced by software provider Citrix—between Oct. 16 and […]
A former State Department appointee was sentenced Friday to 70 months in prison for assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Frederico Klein, who served as a politically appointed State Department official in former President Donald Trump’s administration, was convicted of eight […]
President Joe Biden’s son has filed a lawsuit (pdf) against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), claiming the agency breached his right to privacy by airing concerns to Congress and the public about the agency’s inquiry into his taxes and business transactions. Hunter Biden’s attorneys filed a 27-page lawsuit on Sept. 18, focusing on Gary Shapley […]
TOKYO—A decade-long data breach in Toyota’s much-touted online service put some information on more than 2 million vehicles at risk, the Japanese automaker said Friday. Spanning from January 2012 to April 2023, the problem with Toyota’s cloud-based Connected service pertains only to vehicles in Japan, said spokesperson Hideaki Homma. The Connected service reminds owners to […]
What has the recent Chinese spy balloon incident taught us about shoring up U.S. defenses? Was it a major breach or not? And how would the United States prepare against a devastating attack? NTD sat down with Gen. Robert Spalding, retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier General, for his take.
President Joe Biden said Thursday that he had no regrets that the Chinese spy balloon that traversed the United States wasn’t shot down sooner, saying that he doesn’t consider it to be a “major breach.” “I said I wanted it shot down as soon as possible, and they were worried about the damage that could […]
An intruder has breached Joint Base Andrews, home to Air Force One, for the second time in two years, resulting in gunfire in the base. The intruder was apprehended in the base’s housing area. The incident occurred at around 11:30 a.m. on Feb. 6 and was acknowledged by the Joint Base Andrews Twitter account at […]
MIAMI—Hip hop artist Flo Rida was awarded $82.6 million after a South Florida jury found that the makers of Celsius energy drinks breached a contract with the rapper and singer, and tried to hide money from him. Flo Rida, whose real name is Tramar Dillard, and his production company, Strong Arm Productions, had sued Boca […]
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva late on Jan. 8 visited the nation’s presidential palace, Congress, and the Supreme Court to assess the damage after rioters breached and defaced the three buildings earlier in the day. Ongoing post-election demonstrations have played out in Brazil since Oct. 30, 2022, when Lula, a socialist, was declared the winner of the presidential […]
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach is withdrawing its subpoena of former President Donald Trump. The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has begun the removal and modification of 13 Confederate memorials and symbols on its campus. This continues the nationwide trend of taking Confederate memorials down. Gun rights group “Gun Owners […]
The trial of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and four of his co-defendants is set to start in the U.S. District Court in Washington on Sept. 27, marking one of the most high-profile cases to emerge from the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol. Jury selection began Tuesday and could take several days, while the trial itself is expected […]
A 41-year-old Iowa man has been found guilty by a Washington jury late on Sept. 23 on all seven charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021 breach of the Capitol building. The seven counts that Douglas Jensen of Des Moines, Iowa, was found guilty of include five felonies. They are: obstruction of an official proceeding; assaulting, resisting, […]
American Airlines Inc. on Tuesday confirmed a data breach and said while an “unauthorized actor” gained access to personal information of a small number of customers and employees through a phishing campaign, there was no evidence of data misuse. Recently, Uber Technologies Inc. and Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. also disclosed similar breaches, leaving investors and […]
An off-duty former Virginia police officer who entered the U.S. Capitol with a fellow officer on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to over seven years in prison, a period similar to the longest prison sentence yet in cases related to the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol breach. On Jan. 6, 2021, proceedings at the U.S. […]
A Washington resident was sentenced on July 26 to more than five years in prison, matching the longest term of imprisonment so far among hundreds of Capitol breach prosecutions. Mark Ponder, 56, said he “got caught up” in the chaos that erupted on Jan. 6, 2021, and “didn’t mean for any of this to happen.” “I […]
