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A former “low-level” FBI lawyer reportedly is now the subject of a criminal investigation for modifying a document reportedly linked to surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, after the Justice Department inspector general (IG) reviewed the FBI’s handling of the Russian probe. IG Michael Horowitz, due to hand his report to Congress on Dec. 9 and subsequently testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, uncovered the document during his investigation and handed it over to U.S. Attorney John Dunham, who is conducting a criminal probe at the behest of Attorney General William Barr into how the intelligence community handled the Russian investigation. After news outlets like CNN initially said the nature of the document was unclear, as were the alterations made, the Washington Post reported that Horowitz found they didn’t change the validity of the agency’s FISA application for Page.

Wireless communications company T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach incident that impacts certain customers with pre-paid service accounts. “Our cybersecurity team discovered and shut down malicious, unauthorized access to some information related to your T-Mobile prepaid wireless account. We promptly reported this to authorities,” stated a notification that the Germany-based company posted online. Compromised information includes names, billing addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, and rate plans and features, but no financial information, Social Security numbers or passwords. Because the Federal Communications Commission considers rate plans and features CPNI, or customer proprietary network information, T-Mobile was mandated by federal regulation to inform affected users.

Two dozen apps that collectively generated over 472,000 downloads from the Google Play store were found to be infected with a new Android malware called Joker, which delivers a payload that perpetrates both ad fraud and data theft, a research firm has reported.

It happens to the best of us. We open our laptop to browse the web or check emails when all of a sudden our computer freezes, and a message appears informing us that we’ve been hacked.