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US Hands Over Russian Cybercriminals in WSJ Reporter Prisoner Swap
Plus: Meta pays $1.4 million in a historic privacy settlement, Microsoft blames a cyberattack for a major Azure outage, and an artist creates a face recognition system to reveal your NYPD “coppelganger.”
(WIRED will be on the ground for Black Hat and Defcon, the other big security conference happening next week in Vegas, so check back for our full coverage starting on Tuesday.) In a historic prisoner swap between the US and Russia, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan were freed from Russian detention on Thursday. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will pay $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by the Texas attorney general, whose office accused the social media behemoth of illegally capturing the biometric data of millions of Texans.
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