{
  "id": 207938,
  "title": "Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty Over Breaches Affecting at Least 100 Million People",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/snowflake-hacker-pleads-guilty-over-breaches-affecting-at-least-100",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-06T06:04:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/snowflake-hacker-pleads-guilty-over.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Connor Riley Moucka pleaded guilty in Seattle federal court on Wednesday to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and a related conspiracy over the 2024 breaches of Snowflake customer accounts. The intrusions reached at least 165 organizations and exposed records belonging to at least 100 million people. Moucka, 26, of Kitchener, Ontario, personally took at least $495,000 from",
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      {
        "outlet": "SecurityWeek",
        "title": "Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty in US Court",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/snowflake-hacker-pleads-guilty-in-us-court",
        "published": "2026-08-06T14:56:31.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "TechCrunch",
        "title": "Hacker pleads guilty to stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/hacker-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-data-from-more-than-165-snowflake",
        "published": "2026-08-06T16:42:40.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}