Media mogul Rupert Murdoch (right) rides with Will Lewis, then the general manager of Murdoch's News International and now The Washington Post's CEO, in July 2011. Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images hide caption
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Will Lewis speaks in July 2017, when he was the publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of Dow Jones. Mike Coppola/Getty Images hide caption
Rupert Murdoch, shown in London in July 2011, sought for years to acquire full control of Sky. His British newspaper arm now faces allegations its tabloids hacked into Cabinet ministers' voice mails to pressure them to allow the deal to go through. Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images hide caption
Climate activists protest on the first day of the ExxonMobil trial outside the New York State Supreme Court building on 2019. Last month, prosecutors described how ExxonMobil tried to take advantage of material stolen by hackers working for Aviram Azari. ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
People stand in line to withdraw money from an ATM of Alfa Bank in Moscow last year. Victor Berzkin/AP hide caption
Service members of the 126th Separate Territorial Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine take part in military exercises in the Odesa region on Wednesday. Oleksandr Gimanov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A logo adorns a wall on a branch of the Israeli NSO Group company, near the southern Israeli town of Sapir. The cellphones of six Palestinian human rights activists were infected with spyware from the notorious Israeli hacker-for-hire company as early as July 2020. It was the first time the military-grade Pegasus spyware was known to have been used against Palestinian civil society activists. Sebastian Scheiner/AP hide caption
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, pictured here at a news conference in May 2019, said on Thursday that his administration is pursuing the prosecution of a local newspaper reporter who alerted the government to website security flaws. Jacob Moscovitch/Getty Images hide caption
After her Facebook account was hacked, Angela McNamara of Hamilton, Ontario, struggled to get help from the social network. Using its automated process to recover her account failed to work for her, says McNamara. Jalani Morgan for NPR hide caption
Your Facebook Account Was Hacked. Getting Help May Take Weeks — Or $299
The Justice Department said 27 U.S. Attorney offices had at least one employee's email account compromised. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption
Hackers can access a Peloton user's bike camera, microphone and screen, McAfee reported. Shannon Stapleton/REUTERS hide caption
Hackers used the U.S. Agency for International Development's email marketing account to send messages that looked legitimate — but links in the email exposed recipients to malicious software, Microsoft says. Screen grab by Microsoft hide caption
An NPR investigation into the SolarWinds attack reveals a hack unlike any other, launched by a sophisticated adversary intent on exploiting the soft underbelly of our digital lives. Zoë van Dijk for NPR hide caption
A 'Worst Nightmare' Cyberattack: The Untold Story Of The SolarWinds Hack
Alleged hackers under the names of Rolex#0373 and Kirk#5270 allegedly discuss the possibility of selling access to hacked Twitter accounts for up to $2,500. U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California hide caption
Florida 17-Year-Old, 'Mastermind' Of Twitter Hack, And Two Others Face Charges
Lawmakers are pushing Twitter for answers, warning the hack exposes vulnerabilities in its systems. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption
Twitter says it is investigating the coordinated hack, which attacked the accounts of some of the richest and most popular names on the social media platform. Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Twitter Says It Was The Victim Of A 'Coordinated Social Engineering Attack'
The phone of Jeff Bezos allegedly was hacked via a WhatsApp account held by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Bandar Algaloud/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images hide caption
Don't Be Like Jeff Bezos. Here's How To Keep Your Phone Safe From Hackers
Capitol One, the country's seventh-largest bank, says information was taken from a hack of credit card applications submitted over a 14-year period. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption
U.S. Customs and Border Protection security cameras scan license plates as motor vehicles cross the U.S.-Mexico border from Tijuana, Mexico, in September 2016 in San Ysidro, Calif. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption
"To an extraordinary degree, Mark Zuckerberg is Facebook ... so if you're going to understand Facebook in any meaningful way, the conversation really has to start with him and end with him," journalist Evan Osnos says. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
The Central Question Behind Facebook: 'What Does Mark Zuckerberg Believe In?'
Four Russian intelligence officers who had entered the Netherlands under diplomatic passports were escorted out of the country after they were found to be carrying out a cyberattack on the OPCW chemical weapons watchdog. Dutch Defense Ministry hide caption
U.S. Charges 7 Russian Intelligence Officers With Hacking 40 Sports And Doping Groups
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., works on her cellphone on Capitol Hill. In a recent letter, Sen. Ron Wyden said some senators and Senate staff members were warned that their personal email accounts were targeted by foreign government hackers. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
Phil Bredesen, the former Democratic governor of Tennessee, is running for the seat now held by Republican Sen. Bob Corker. Bredesen's campaign contacted the FBI on Thursday about a potential breach of its system. Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
