The Department of Justice charged an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) contractor, contending that the individual leaked tax return information of a "high-ranking government official."
Life-threatening flash flooding hit the New York City area Friday as remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia pummeled the heavily saturated region with several inches of rain in mere hours.
"Not only did we arrest more suspects during this single operation than we have ever arrested before, we identified 21 human trafficking victims; during a similar operation in February, we identified 24 victims," Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County stated.
The breach of the State Department's email accounts was facilitated by the compromise of a device belonging to a Microsoft engineer, as per the details shared in the briefing.