Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

The New York Times report that Russian hackers managed to break into the White House computers in 2014 and were able to read US president Barack Obama’s emails.

The White House admitted the Russian hacker invasion last April but underlined that they were unable to procure any classified information.

I previously wrote the two paragraphs below about the Makers Movement in Turkey:

Police are investigating claims by a group of hackers that they have got hold of data on everyone in the country.

"We have whole Serbia in our hands. We have almost all information about Serbian citizens, starting from their ID numbers to information on what they do, where they live and what are their phone numbers," the hackers wrote in an email sent to the media on Thursday.

Apple is ramping up iCloud defenses in the aftermath of hackers swiping nude photos of celebrities from the online digital vault, the Wall Street Journal reported late Sept. 4.