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U.S. authorities announced what they believed to be the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted on Monday in a scheme in which more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen.

The popular social networking site Twitter has been hit by a denial of service attack, according to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. In an e-mail to CNN.com, Stone said this morning's attack is not related to a recent incident in which a hacker stole internal documents from the site. Twitter's site went down around 9:30 a.m. ET.

The microblogging service fears the social network could put it out of business.

Twitter seeks legal advice after hundreds of documents were hacked and a number of blogs publish some of the stolen material.

News Corp. issued a detailed rebuttal of allegations that reporters at two of its U.K. tabloids used illegal methods to collect information on sports stars, celebrities and other public figures.

British police will look into a report that a Rupert Murdoch subsidiary hacked into cellphone messages.

More than two dozen Internet sites in South Korea and the United States including the White House were attacked and some disabled by hackers possibly linked to North Korea, South Korea's spy agency said on Wednesday.

A widespread and unusually resilient computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of several government agencies, including some that are responsible for fighting cyber crime, The Associated Press has learned.

A French hacker posts 13 screenshots of a Twitter product manager's admin interface to prove the claim.

Buffeted by millions of digital scans and attacks each day, federal authorities are looking for hackers not to prosecute them ...