Today in News History

On July 13, several notable moments in the history of News stand out. In 1793, Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction. In 1913, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish businessman (died 2012) was born. In 1951, Rob Bishop, American educator and politician was born. In 1956, Michael Spinks, American boxer was born. In 1973, Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee. In 1977, New York City: Amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting. In 2003, French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press. In 2010, George Steinbrenner, American businessman (born 1930) passed away. In 2013, Vernon B. Romney, American lawyer and politician, 14th Attorney General of Utah (born 1924) passed away. In 2020, Grant Imahara, American electrical engineer, roboticist, and television host (born 1970) passed away. Together, these milestones provide historical context for today's news news and ongoing narratives.

I Watched a Contract Rob Itself of $50M. Nobody Hacked It.

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July 7, 2026

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Quadrant Magazine

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· Jun 23, 2026

Hollywood Hack, Complete Rat

Hollywood Hack, Complete Rat

Wired

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· Jun 23, 2026

Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed

The private events group, cofounded by Peter Thiel, says a “criminal” hacker is behind a breach that exposed members’ personal details. WIRED found no evidence a break-in was needed to access the files.

Drudge Report

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· Jul 1, 2026

CRYPTO KING: DON POCKETS $580 MILLION!

CRYPTO KING: DON POCKETS 580 MILLION! (Main headline, 1st story, link) Related stories:'GOVERNANCE TOKENS'NET WORTH TRIPLES IN SECOND TERM80 MILLION SUING MEDIA

CoinDesk

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· Jul 4, 2026

How ethical hackers with just a $3,000 server found a flaw that could've put $70 billion in crypto at risk

How ethical hackers with just a $3,000 server found a flaw that could've put $70 billion in crypto at risk

Daily Dot

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· Jul 10, 2026

‘I Just Broke Into the Dollar General’: Woman Says She Accidentally Entered Store After It Closed

A woman is going viral after sharing a video of what she describes as accidentally “breaking into” a Dollar General after entering the store through an unlocked door after closing. The video starts with text on the screen that says “come with me to commit my first crime.” The woman is smiling, suggesting the story Sign up to receive the Daily Dot’s Internet Insider newsletter for urgent news from the frontline of online. The post ‘I Just Broke Into the Dollar General’: Woman Says She Accidentally Entered Store After It Closed appeared first on The Daily Dot.

Law Enforcement Today

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· Jul 6, 2026

How an AI-Fueled Government Scam Kept a Man in Fear for 10 Weeks

A fake arrest warrant. Forged government documents. Daily video calls with impostors. Here's how an AI-fueled scam unraveled one man's retirement and cost him a quarter of a million dollars.

Vanguard News

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· Jun 25, 2026

ICPC arraigns El-Rufai, ex-aide, over alleged N8.6bn CCTV contract fraud

One of the counts alleges that El-Rufai aided an act of corruption by approving the CCTV contract in violation of procurement laws despite allegedly knowing that the company awarded the contract lacked the requisite experience. The post ICPC arraigns El-Rufai, ex-aide, over alleged N8.6bn CCTV contract fraud appeared first on Vanguard News.

MeidasTouch

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· Jun 26, 2026

Corporate media just blew it again…

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Decrypt

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· Jun 25, 2026

Polymarket to Refund Users After Scammers Swipe Millions in Website Exploit

Hackers infiltrated Polymarket’s website via a compromised third-party vendor, the company said, swiping millions in crypto from users.

The Real Deal

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· Jun 27, 2026

NYC’s top deals: Witkoff, Access Industries snag $24M for One High Line penthouse  

There were 295 transactions totaling 488 million filed in New York City records in the 24 hours before 4 p.m. on Friday, June 26. Commercial: The top commercial deal recorded in New York was on the Lower East Side. Shinko Co., which provides dry cleaning equipment, paid 24 million for a six-story, mixed-use building at 245 Eldridge Street. The seller, 245 Eldridge LLC, had owned the 10-apartment complex, which has ground-floor retail, since December, when the company purchased the building for 16.5 million. Residential: The most expensive home sale was a 23.5 million deal for a penthouse in []This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.

Gizmodo

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· Jun 25, 2026

Hackers Steal Funds From Polymarket Users, Potentially Millions

We're contacting impacted users refunding them in full.

MakeUseOf

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· Jul 2, 2026

The trademark scam that could have handed Linux to a stranger demanding 10% royalties

Linus Torvalds had to sue to get his own name back.

Sweden Herald

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· Jun 22, 2026

Wall-crawling reporter bought out by TV4

Wall-crawling reporter bought out by TV4

DNyuz

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· Jul 11, 2026

CBS news anchor nearly loses life savings in LA scam

A phone scam was so convincing that even veteran CBS News correspondent Matt Gutman admits he nearly walked into his bank and emptied his account before realizing something was terribly wrong. In a video shared Friday on his X account, Gutman recounted receiving a call from someone claiming to work in his bank’s “fraud protection” []

The Economic Times

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· Jul 12, 2026

Badrinath scam: CCTV shows 'suspicious' cash theft

Badrinath scam: CCTV shows 'suspicious' cash theft

Knewz

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· Jul 13, 2026

CBS News journalist nearly hands over his savings after falling for a convincing scam

CBS News journalist Matt Gutman shared his experience of a phone scam so impressive that he almost emptied his bank account. But he resisted and figured that something didn’t sit right. The incident came just months after another journalist, Alex Delgado, revealed that she lost more than 70k to scammers. The growing number of incidents...

Us Weekly

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· Jun 26, 2026

New Nancy Guthrie Letter Claims There's Video Evidence of Kidnapping: Report

A new ransom note claims to have video evidence of Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping. An email obtained by TMZ on Friday, June 26, allegedly claims that there is video footage of the “main guy” who kidnapped Guthrie from the day she reportedly died. “I am not the idiot who recently called in a tip about her []

Ethereum on Medium

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· Jun 28, 2026

ERC8009: What Would Have Stopped the Bybit Hack

1.5 billion. One transaction. The largest crypto theft in history.Continue reading on Medium »

Al Jazeera English

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· Jun 27, 2026

Exclusive: Infiltrating Myanmar’s scam syndicates | 101 East Documentary

Southeast Asia’s cyberscam industry has trafficked at least 300,000 people from more than 60 countries, and stolen trillions of dollars from victims across the world. In this global exclusive, 101 East exposes how the industry is run with impunity. This two-year investigation reveals a highly organised network built on greed and forced criminality. As law enforcement authorities play catch-up, Chinese syndicates are evolving and setting up new operations around the world. 101 East goes undercover to expose the playbook of Myanmar’s notorious scam industry. #myanmar #cyberscam #fraud

The Hollywood Reporter

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· Jul 1, 2026

Getty Images Abandons $3.7 Billion Merger With Shutterstock

The photo giant chalks up the scuttling of the deal to a U.K. regulator requiring a divestiture of its rival's editorial business, a non-starter for the company.

South China Morning Post

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· Jul 2, 2026

Cyberattack on Hong Kong’s Shun Hing Group affects data of 1 million people

A cyberattack on leading Hong Kong appliance distributor Shun Hing Group has compromised the personal information of more than 1 million people, according to the city’s privacy watchdog. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said on Thursday that it had launched an investigation into the incident after receiving a data breach report from Shun Hing Group on March 23. The latest information provided by the company suggested that the personal data of as many as 1.05 million...

Fortune

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· Jul 10, 2025

How a deepfake of Marco Rubio exposed the alarming ease of AI voice scams

With just 15 seconds of audio, hackers can now launch convincing deepfake scams—targeting CEOs, employees, and even world leaders.

The Next Web

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· Jun 25, 2026

Hackers stole three million dollars from Polymarket users through a compromised third-party vendor

Polymarket confirmed on Thursday that hackers stole funds from users after a third-party vendor was compromised, allowing malicious code to be injected into the prediction market’s website. Blockchain monitoring firm PeckShield estimated the losses at roughly three million dollars worth of cryptocurrency, drained from more than 11 victims. The company said in a post on [] This story continues at The Next Web

The New Zealand Herald

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· Jun 27, 2026

How to spot a get-rich-quick scam - Diana Clement

How to spot a get-rich-quick scam - Diana Clement

Jewish News Syndicate

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· Jul 9, 2026

Buck Sexton: The same trick that fooled millions is happening again

“Think Twice” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Buck Sexton, Ep. 229

Baltic News Network

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· Jul 2, 2026

Hacker remained undetected in “Latvijas valsts meži” system for several days

A hacker had gained access to the IT systems of Latvia’s state-owned forestry company “Latvijas valsts meži” (LVM) as early as 11 June but only began carrying out active operations during the night of 22–23 June, Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs told journalists on Thursday following a Cabinet meeting on the cyberattack. However, the hacker remained [] The post Hacker remained undetected in “Latvijas valsts meži” system for several days appeared first on Baltic News Network.

The korea Herald News

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· Jul 3, 2026

North Korea behind two-thirds of global crypto stolen in H1: report

North Korea-linked hacking groups were responsible for about two-thirds of cryptocurrency stolen worldwide in the first half of this year, a report by San Francisco-based blockchain analysis firm TRM Labs showed Friday. According to the report, North Korea-linked actors stole 643 million worth of cryptocurrency during the January-June period, accounting for 66.2 percent of the 972 million in global crypto hack losses. TRM Labs attributed much of the stolen value to two major decentralized fina

Ars Technica

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· Jun 22, 2026

This former hacker saw the light—and now wants to collect all of it

I don’t know of a bigger question we can answer as humans.

NDTV

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· Jul 10, 2026

Seeking Stamina Boosters, Thousands Fall Into Cyber Extortion Trap

Operating through sophisticated call centers, the gang exploited personal vulnerabilities by selling fake stamina-enhancing medicines online and then extorted the buyers by posing as law enforcement...

RAPPLER

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· Jun 23, 2026

India’s Tata Electronics hit by cyber breach claiming to expose Apple, Tesla trade secrets

The breach highlights the vulnerability of global businesses to increasingly sophisticated cyber and ransom attacks

Sky News Australia

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· Jun 26, 2026

Microsoft and Amazon fall sharply while semiconductors soar

CommSec’s James Gruber has commented on Microsoft and Amazon’s sharp overnight fall on Wall Street. “Underneath the surface though, there was a lot happening,” Mr Gruber told Sky News Australia. The giant tech stocks – the magnificent seven which includes Microsoft and Amazon and so on – every one of them was down overnight quite sharply while another part of the tech sector soared, and that was semiconductors. “Micron, for instance, was up 16 per cent after its result the day before.” Presented by CommSec.

Financial Times

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· Jul 8, 2026

Meta tests ‘super sensing’ AI glasses that can capture every moment

Mark Zuckerberg’s hardware ambitions are edging into a new privacy fight over who gets recorded

The Hacker News

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· Jul 13, 2026

Attacker Uses Suspected AI-Generated PowerShell Script to Map Active Directory

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an intrusion in which an unknown threat actor leveraged a vibe-coded PowerShell script for Active Directory (AD) enumeration. The script looked for the Domain Controller (DC) and mapped users, computers, and domains, before creating a directory and exporting out a number of files, and finally creating AD_Report.html to measure the success of the

TechCrunch

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· Jun 26, 2026

Russian hackers were behind $2.5 billion hack of Jaguar Land Rover: Report

The hack on car giant Jaguar Land Rover last year was one the most disrupting, damaging, and costly hacks of the last few years.

Utusan Malaysia

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· Jul 9, 2026

Hati-hati terima wang daripada sumber tidak diketahui

PUTRAJAYA: Isu jenayah siber semakin kompleks dengan taktik baharu dengan menyasarkan mangsa lapisan kedua iaitu individu yang menerima wang daripada aliran dana jenayah tanpa mengetahui sumber sebenar. Kelompok itu bukan mangsa yang kehilangan wang akibat ditipu, sebaliknya menjadi mangsa kepada proses penguatkuasaan apabila akaun mereka dibekukan kerana menerima transaksi yang dipercayai berkaitan jenayah siber. Presiden ... Read more The post Hati-hati terima wang daripada sumber tidak diketahui appeared first on Utusan Malaysia.

NL Times

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Hackers having less luck creeping into Dutch company networks; Smaller firms unprepared

Hackers managed to break their way into the networks of fewer Dutch companies last year, and the proportion of organizations that suffered damage also decreased, ABN Amro

Townhall

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· Jun 24, 2026

AAG McDonald Told the Nation Just How Much of Our Money Was Stolen by Healthcare Fraudsters

AAG McDonald Told the Nation Just How Much of Our Money Was Stolen by Healthcare Fraudsters

Inc.com

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· Jun 27, 2026

Inside the $2.5 Billion Cyberattack That Shut Down Jaguar Land Rover

A new report reveals Russian hackers were behind the 2025 security breach that paralyzed the British automaker for five weeks. ‘They just wanted to see if they could do it,’ said one official.

Digital Trends

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· Jun 21, 2026

Hackers leak facial recognition records tied to millions of Madison Square Garden visitors

A cybercriminal group has published what it claims are millions of records stolen from Madison Square Garden Entertainment. The leak is drawing attention not just because of its size, but because it includes facial recognition data, internal threat assessments, and detailed visitor profiles.

GroundUp News

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· Jul 8, 2026

Explainer: How “money mule” scams work

We asked the banks what they are doing to combat this type of fraud

Sky News - Business

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· Feb 10, 2026

<a href='https://news.sky.com/story/mark-kleinman-blog-see-the-latest-stories-from-sky-news-city-editor-13475361'>Morrisons in talks with US giant Realty Inc about £600m stores deal | Mark Kleinman blog</a>

<a href='https://news.sky.com/story/mark-kleinman-blog-see-the-latest-stories-from-sky-news-city-editor-13475361'>Morrisons in talks with US giant Realty Inc about £600m stores deal | Mark Kleinman blog</a>

DualShockers

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· Jun 23, 2026

Thieves in the Night: How Half-Life 2 Was Stolen

The true story of how Half-Life 2 was leaked by one person.

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