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The Federal Communication Commission fined Google $25,000 for an investigation on how Google data’s from its Street View mapping feature. According to the report from FCC, Google deliberately delayed the investigation by not responding to the demand for documents. Later the investigation was turned towards Marius Milner, a Google engineer, who was the probable for the mishap.

A group of cyber criminals, Anonymous bought down websites of U.S. Telecom Association and TechAmerica. The hack was to justify their support to a cyber security bill proposed by Rep. Mike Rogers that would allow the private companies and the government to share any information "directly pertaining to a vulnerability of, or threat to" a computer network.

VMware’s ESX code was stolen and posted online by a group of hackers. But VMware exclaimed that the breach made no sense because the codes where used sometime around 2003 and 2004 and now it has been subjected to a lot of changes.

Automotive giant, Nissan admitted on a network breach within their site and many user and customer details were stolen.

Global Payments, a payment processing company declared that their website and account details had been hacked and where doing further investigations on extensive breaches across their data servers. The company announced that up to 1.5 million card numbers were stolen and posted.

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