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A journalist for the British newspaper "Financial Times" is killed by a crocodile in Sri Lanka.
2017-09-15

Bangladeshi bank officials say unknown hackers installed malware in the bank's computer systems in last month's attempt to steal nearly $1 billion from the central bank's account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
2016-03-11

Britain's National Union of Journalists announces a strike against the "Financial Times", protesting the changes in pension arrangements since the acquisition of the FT by a Japanese media group, Nikkei.
2015-11-20

The United States Office of Personnel Management closes down its system for employee background checks following the theft of millions of records in a computer hacking incident suspected to be conducted by Chinese hackers.
2015-06-29

The Associated Press reports that hackers linked to the People's Republic of China appear to have gained access to sensitive background material about people seeking security clearances from the United States government.
2015-06-12

The United States Department of Justice charges five Chinese military officers with hacking into private-sector American companies in a bid for competitive advantage.
2014-05-19

Portugal's treasury secretary Joaquim Pais Jorge resigns after media reports and opposition politicians questioned his previous role at Citigroup.
2013-08-7

The United States stock market undergoes a flash crash (similar to 2010) of 1 percent when the Twitter feed from the Associated Press news agency is hacked and erroneously states that several explosions have injured President Barack Obama.
2013-04-23

Hackers hack the popular note-taking application Evernote. The website says that the hackers gained access to user passwords, e-mails, and usernames.
2013-03-2

The social networking giant Facebook announces that it was the target of sophisticated hackers, who through a then-unknown bug from Oracle's Java on an infected website, managed to infiltrate employees' laptops, and then the internal networks. There was no user data collected, but certain code and corporate e-mails could have been exfiltrated.
2013-02-15