Whistleblower Who Exposed Corrupt FBI Chief Found Dead in Florida Apartment
The woman whose tip brought down a corrupt FBI counterintelligence chief was found dead in her Florida apartment on August 27, posting dozens of criticisms of federal officials on social media in the hours before her body was discovered.
FBI Probes Breach of 160 Million American Driver's License Scans
Criminals claiming persistent access to a New Orleans identity verification company are selling scans of more than 160 million North American driver's licenses on a Russian dark web forum, and the FBI confirmed on September 3 it opened a formal investigation after independent researchers verified the authenticity of the data.
Downtown Minneapolis Mass Shooting Kills Two and Wounds Three Officers
Two civilians died and three Minneapolis officers were wounded after a gunman opened fire in a downtown apartment tower on September 2; the shooter, evicted from the building that afternoon, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Cyberattack Takes Luminis Health's Two Maryland Hospitals Offline
Luminis Health's two Maryland hospitals disclosed a cyberattack September 2 that shut down patient portals and forced ambulance rerouting; whether patient data was exfiltrated remains unconfirmed pending forensic review.
FBI Grand Jury Forces Google to Identify Two AnarchistFederation.net Administrators
After a July subpoena to Cloudflare failed to fully identify AnarchistFederation.net's operators, the FBI obtained a second grand jury subpoena to Google that produced names, addresses, and account records for two of the site's administrators.
Florida Revokes All Flock Camera Permits on State Roads
Florida revoked all Flock camera permits on state roads August 31 and gave agencies 30 days to remove the hardware, ending automated license plate monitoring on the state highway network while providing no approved replacement for the investigative and patrol capability those cameras supported.