Cologne’s Public Prosecutor announced that more than 400 officers were involved in searching 121 apartments across 14 states, targeting users of online file-sharing forum Boerse.
Hackers stole personal information from more than 104,000 taxpayers this spring, the International Revenue Service (IRS) said yesterday.
10Fold recently evaluated the seven largest breaches this year - and found that hackers had absconded with more than 193.4 million personal records.
The accused face a series of charges, including conspiracy to commit computer fraud, following the theft of intellectual property from a number of US businesses.
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