Five people were charged in a federal court in New York on Tuesday in cases related to the cyberattack on JP Morgan Chase & Co. last October, which exposed some 83 million bank account records of US households and small businesses, reports the Wall Street Journal. JP Morgan officials argued last year that the Russian government was behind the hack, which was recorded as one of the largest US bank breaches in history. Three of the individuals were accused of operating a pump-and-dump scheme to manipulate stock prices, while the other two were arrested for running an unlicensed Bitcoin exchange.…
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