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US Hands Over Russian Cybercriminals in WSJ Reporter Prisoner Swap

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Feed Name: WIRED Security

Date Published: 2024-08-03

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Andrew Couts

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A weekly security and privacy roundup covers a historic US–Russia prisoner swap that freed two convicted Russian hackers, Meta’s $1.4B settlement with Texas over alleged unlawful biometric data capture via Facebook’s Tag Suggestions, and a global Microsoft Azure outage attributed to a DDoS attack claimed by hacktivists; it also notes recent global tech disruptions and the release of “Coppelganger,” a face recognition tool trained on publicly available images of NYPD officers with complaint histories.

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