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A ransomware group linked to Russia has claimed a cyberattack on McDonald's Corporation, as federal officials warn of potential widespread targeting of US businesses after Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. The hacker gang Snatch on Friday claimed to have stolen 500 gigabytes of data from the fast-food giant headquartered in Chicago, posting their demand for an undisclosed ransom on the dark web. A McDonald's spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com. The iconic company, which signifies America's economy and culture around the world with more than 38,000 locations in 100 countries, has a market capitalization...

On 28 January, a young man in a red hoodie snatched a pistol from a man openly carrying it, in Detroit, Michigan. The robbery occurred in the BP gas station at Seven Mile and Wyoming Ave. A confederate held the store door open. It was unclear if there was another confederate in the getaway vehicle. The getaway vehicle did not have a rear license plate. Google maps BP at Seven Mile and Wyoming, cropped and scaled by Dean Weingarten The man openly carrying the pistol was identified as being 53 years old. The surveillance video, released on 20 February, reportedly...

Man runs down thief who grabbed 77-year-old`s purse: `I got him on the ground` CHESTER, Va. – A 77-year-old woman put her purse down in the front seat as she loaded into the backseat groceries she had just bought at the Kroger in Chester. Meanwhile, Justin Watkins was inside Lowe’s picking up items for a construction job when he heard a loud commotion of people. "We proceed to check out and while we're standing in this checkout line, people start hollerin'… they're saying, ‘stop stop stop…he's got her purse,’” Watkins said. Witnesses in the Kroger Parking lot chased the suspect,...

Gov. John Kasich’s campaign is plotting to snatch the Republican nomination at a contested convention in Cleveland in August. Kasich campaign chief strategist John Weaver blasted out a strategy memo during Kasich’s Ohio victory speech that made clear that Kasich will seek to win the nomination at a contested convention. “No candidate will win 1237 delegates,” Weaver said in the memo. Ohio governor Kasich defeated Donald Trump in the Ohio primary Tuesday night, with Kasich grabbing 43.4 percent of the vote to Trump’s 36.5 percent, with 28 percent of the precincts reporting. “This is all I got,” Kasich said in...

“The president said [last week] that the next president needs … a new car smell, and it’s pretty hard for me to say … that she [Hillary] has a new car smell,” Schoen told radio host John Catsimatidis in an interview to air Sunday on New York’s 970 AM...

Cpl Sarah Bryant, the first female soldier to be killed in Afghanistan, was sent on operations in a Snatch Land Rover after the Ministry of Defence ignored an SAS commanding officer’s warnings about the vehicle’s vulnerability, an inquest heard.

VIRGINIA BEACH -- Police say a teenager on a bicycle made off with a haul of plus-sized women’s lingerie from a Virginia Beach store Monday. But his getaway was brief, after police nabbed the alleged underwear thief within minutes of the robbery. Shortly after a call came in from a burglar alarm at a women's clothing store in the Landstown Commons complex, police found the suspect on a bike carrying the loot. Video: Underwear thief nabbed minutes after smash and grab robbery Crews replaced the broken storefront glass at the Lane Bryant store and got them back in business after...

by ANDY DOLAN - More by this author » Last updated at 23:25pm on 14th September 2007 Catch A Thief: Sam McAlister tracked down the thief who snatched her bag A mother who had her bag snatched was told by police it was not a crime - because she chased after the thief and won her property back. Sam McAlister was queueing in a coffee shop with her ten-month-old son when a woman grabbed the bag from the back of the pushchair as an accomplice distracted her. Miss McAlister, 34, left her child with staff at the Starbucks cafe, whom...

Italians hunt covert CIA snatch squad Barbara McMahon in Rome Sunday June 26, 2005 The Observer Italy and the United States were embroiled in a growing diplomatic row today over the CIA's alleged kidnapping of a terror suspect, as other countries also began investigations into America's role in the disappearance of their citizens. Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, known as Abu Omar, was seized two years ago on the streets of Milan. Italian investigators claim he was bundled into the back of a van, driven to a US airbase in the north of Italy and secretly flown to Egypt,...

OAKLAND — A 13-year-old foster child who admitted killing a neighbor's pet rabbits in March is now facing criminal charges that he snatched a woman's purse, police confirmed Wednesday. After his arrest Friday, the North Oakland boy told police it was the first time he had ever done such a thing, adding, "I'm sorry." The purse-snatching victim, a 31-year-old Oakland woman, was walking along Claremont Avenue about 7 p.m. after getting off a BART train. A witness who saw the woman's purse being taken followed the boy in a car. The boy hid the purse in some bushes behind an...

18,000 Troop Push Aims to Convince Taliban to Accempt Amnesty About 18,000 American troops have started a winter long operation against the Taliban rebels in Afghanistan, vowing to eliminate insurgents who could threaten parliamentary elections in the spring.The US Military said Saturday that the new push, dubbed Operation Lightening Freedom, would convince insurgents to accept amnesty pushed by President Hamid Karzai and allow foreign troops to pull back.The operation was initated after Karzia's inaguaration Tuesday as the country's first democratically elected president. Maj Gen. Mark McCann gave no details of any significant moves against militant targets. 'It is basically designed...

The headline in the New York Sun reads like a bad joke but makes perfect sense: "Venezuela Outsources Intelligence Activities To Cuba." In a global society, where what economists call 'comparative advantage' rules, each country does the most of its specialty. And in Cuba, its only production of note is its repressive police state. This is the only product it can credibly export, and quite an economically damning fact. But the substance of its number one export is very disturbing. It has a buyer in Venezuela's Marxist dictator, Hugo Chavez. The details of this new law that Chavez has passed...

Nearly one in five British women would sacrifice a pay rise or promotion for a bikini body they they could show off on the beach, a survey claims. The survey shows how ambivalent women feel about wearing a bikini, as many of those interviewed said they found it as stressful as meeting their partner's parents for the first time. And 45 per cent said they thought their partners looked at foreign women on the beach because they have better bodies. The survey, carried out on behalf of Slim Fast, found that, while there were 19 per cent who would sacrifice...