Co-creator of Empire Market dark web marketplace given 40-year sentence

The feed covers cybercrime enforcement and threat activity, including an international takedown of infrastructure associated with China-linked Flax Typhoon operations, ransomware-related fraud charges, and an employee-account compromise at ASOS involving social engineering and a rogue push notification. It also reports a proposed Google acquisition of extensive Spirit Airlines corporate and employee data for AI training, raising significant privacy and data-governance concerns. The Empire Market sentencing item concerns dark-web drug trafficking and cryptocurrency forfeiture rather than a new4