Two plead guilty in conspiracy involving Uber, LinkedIn, others

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Two plead guilty in conspiracy involving Uber, LinkedIn, others
Two hackers pleaded guilty in US federal court on Wednesday for a conspiracy to extract bounties from major tech corporations, the US Justice Department said. Uber, LinkedIn and other corporations were targeted in exchange for promises to delete information stolen from Amazon Web Services, ...

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