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Hacked Twins, Dark Web Bosses and Ransomware: A Week in Tech Crime

In a world where human error often exposes our deepest secrets, even twins can’t keep their dirty deeds secret.

A pair of cybercriminal twins from Pakistan have been caught after they forgot to turn off a Microsoft Teams recording during their final minutes at an IT firm. Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter pleaded guilty to destroying 96 government databases in revenge for their firings, with their conversation about it still recorded.


In a separate case, Instructure has reached a deal with the hackers who disrupted their educational software Canvas across thousands of US schools. The hackers claim that all stolen data had been returned and destroyed, but details are scarce.


The alleged boss of Dream Market, a dark web drug market, was arrested in Germany more than seven years after its closure. He is accused of making millions from the site's commissions through illegal means.


Open source projects remain at risk as OpenAI disclosed two employees were victims of a supply chain attack on TanStack, a popular library used to build web apps.


A major data broker in the US has finally removed code that hid its opt-out page for three years, following a previous instance where Findem was caught hiding this information from Google.

Original source:  https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-cybercriminal-twins-caught-after-they-forgot-to-turn-off-microsoft-teams-recording/
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