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Mother-of-two chartered accountant who stole £40,000 from her employer to fund Alpine ski trip is jailed
Kirsty Payne, a 44-year-old chartered accountant from Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, has been jailed after stealing more than £40,000 from her employer, refrigerated lorry service firm Marshall Thermo King, and spending it on a ski holiday in the French Alps. The mother-of-two, who earned around £80,000 a year, committed the fraud while already subject to a suspended…
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Leaks, data breaches, and ransom notes: The worst hacks of 2026 so far
TechCrunch’s mid-year roundup argues that cybersecurity has moved from a background concern to a central feature of 2026’s news, with digital attacks now intertwined with warfare, government overreach and infrastructure disruption. The piece highlights two major strands so far this year: unresolved questions over the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) handling of Social Security data,…
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Amputee cheats death again after being bitten by rattlesnake for a FOURTH time…and believes attacks could be ‘karma’ for leaving wife on anniversary
An Arizona man, Jason Hackett, 48, survived being bitten by a rattlesnake for the fourth time in four years after he went camping alone following an argument with his wife on their 20th wedding anniversary. Hackett, an amputee, was bitten on the calf by a western diamondback rattlesnake while urinating outside his camper in Perkinsville,…
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CenterPoint Energy confirms intruder helped themselves to customer information
Texas utility CenterPoint Energy has confirmed that an attacker breached one of its internet-facing systems and stole customer personal information. The company disclosed the incident in a Form 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, after someone posted on a cybercrime forum claiming to be selling the stolen data. CenterPoint, which serves around…
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Swiss court sentences 52-year-old Ukrainian ransomware dev to nearly 13 years in the cooler
A Zurich court has sentenced a 52-year-old Ukrainian man to 12 years and nine months in prison for developing the LockerGoga, MegaCortex and Nefilim ransomware strains used in attacks on companies including Swiss train maker Stadler Rail. The court found he wrote the malicious code but was not the mastermind behind the wider criminal operations,…
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No one could stand in the way of this juggernaut! The biggest shocks from the Emmy awards
Hollywood’s Emmy awards produced a string of surprises, with the comedy Hacks suffering a stark reversal of fortune despite entering the ceremony with a record 24 nominations. Jean Smart won lead actress in a comedy for the fourth consecutive season of the show, making her the first woman to win an Emmy for every season…
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Data center debacle as ‘computer glitch’ causes 5k gallons of diesel fuel to spill into New Jersey wetlands
Around 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled from a storage tank at Equinix’s NY2 data centre in Secaucus, New Jersey, on 11 September, flowing into Anderson Creek, a tributary feeding the Hackensack River. The incident has triggered a major clean-up operation and reignited anger over the rapid expansion of data centres across the state, with…
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COBOL dev won .Net hackathon with help from AI – and their CIO loves it
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is rolling out Microsoft Copilot to administrative staff for everyday tasks, not to boost immediate efficiency but to build broad AI familiarity across the organisation that could later inform improvements to core services. CIO Mark Sawade, speaking at Gartner’s IT Symposium, described this as building “return on employee” rather than…
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HBO Max Reddit account compromised to serve ClickFix attacks
Unknown attackers compromised HBO Max’s official Reddit account and used it to push more than 100 malicious adverts distributing information-stealing malware to both Windows and macOS users. The incident, uncovered by a Reddit user on 6 September, formed part of a wider “48-hour malvertising blitz” that abused trusted brand accounts to trick victims into running…
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Cross-party growth push, Iran death sentence, Australian rate rise loom over UK bulletin
Burnham courts business at a Downing Street growth summit amid Budget tax fears; an Iranian blogger is sentenced to death, a Malaysian teen acquitted of murder, and Australians face fresh rate hikes, plus GOV.UK’s passkey rollout, an A66 tribute run and new Nightsleeper casting.