How your press release may have made Ukranian hackers $100M

All kinds of businesses love press releases. It helps them control the news, the media and messaging. It also makes for a lazy and often boosterish business press. Some of those releases also helped an international hacking crew make as much as $100 million, according to indictments announced by the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission. The SEC and federal prosecutors alleged hackers from the Ukraine and with partners in the U.S. breached computer systems operated by press release websites and…
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