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The Polymarket prediction market platform logo appears on a smartphone placed on a reflective surface onto which a list of available bets is projected.
The Polymarket prediction market platform logo appears on a smartphone placed on a reflective surface onto which a list of available bets is projected, on March 9, 2026. (Photo by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Google security engineer accused of turning confidential search trends into $1.2M win on Polymarket

Michele Spagnuolo allegedly placed multiple trades on the prediction marketplace, abusing internal access to Google’s nonpublic data on the most searched people in 2025.
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Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, is pictured at its headquarters building on June 24, 2020 in The Hague, Netherlands. (Photo by Yuriko Nakao/Getty Images)

European authorities take down prolific cybercrime VPN service

Officials arrested the alleged administrator of First VPN, seized its servers and domains. Europol said the service appeared in almost every major recent cybercrime investigation.
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