Alleged hackers charged

US prosecutors have charged three men for their role in what is one of the largest data breaches in US history. They stole nearly one billion email addresses between 2009 and 2012 by hacking into eight email service providers. The men then used their stolen data to spam millions of people and sell them fake products. They made over $2 million from this endeavor. Giang Hoang Vu pleaded guilty guilty to conspiracy to commit computer fraud, but Viet Quoc Nguyen is still at large. These tow men allegedly used the stolen addresses to link people to websites selling fake Adobe software. David-Manuel Santos Da Silva, the other defendant, has been charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Unarmed black teen killed by Wisconsin police

Tony Terrell Robinson Jr., a graduate of Sun Prairie High School, was shot dead Friday during a confrontation with a police officer in Madison, Wisconsin. Robinson was unarmed.

Being yet another police shooting involving the death of a black person, this event has caused much outrage within the community. More than 100 protesters gathered at the scene of the shooting and chanted “Who can you trust? Not the police.”

“You’re not protecting us, you’re killing us,” Robinson’s grandmother, Sharon Irwin, shouted at police as protesters rallied in the streets.

Police reportedly confronted Robinson, who was connected to a previous report of battery. The officer who killed Robinson, 12-year department veteran Matt Kenny, had used deadly force before, shooting and killing a man in 2007.

Boko Haram pledges allegiance to ISIS

Boko Haram, the Nigeria-based Islamist terror group, has pledged allegiance to ISIS, according to an audio message that is supposedly from Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau. In the audio (posted online Saturday) the speaker says Boko Haram is announcing its “allegiance to the Caliph of the Muslims, Ibrahim ibn Awad ibn Ibrahim al-Husseini al-Qurashi,” which is another name for ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. While media sources have not been able to independently verify the authenticity of the video, leading experts agree that this video is, in fact, real.