A man from the Bahamas has plead guilty in a Manhattan federal court of hacking into the email accounts of celebrities and stealing unreleased movies, TV scripts, and personal information then trying to sell it. Alonzo Knowles was arrested back in December when he tried to sell 15 scripts to an undercover agent. "I am sorry for my actions," Knowles said in court.

Law enforcement in Akron, Ohio are warning consumers to beware a spam email in circulation. The email claims to come from the City of Akron and offers to give recipients up to $1,500 for replacing older HVAC units with more energy efficient units. The email is fake and is being used to scam consumers.

Email service and data solutions provider Return Path has created a nonprofit organization aimed to help people who are returning to the workforce after a break in their career. The organization, which opened its doors in March, is called Path Forward. The group's mission is to increase opportunities for parents and other caregivers, who have been out of the workplace for extended periods by placing them in mid career internships.

A health center in London has been fined GBP180,000 after mistakenly exposing the email addresses of more than 700 people that use its HIV service. The NHS's Dean Street clinic sent an email newsletter last year to its patients without blind copying the email addresses. Essentially, the email's to line showed a list of the clinic's entire network of patients.

The State Department hasn't found any text messages sent by Hillary Clinton during her tenure in the department. In addition, the agency hasn't found and any emails sent to or from the IT specialist in charge at the time. However, a spokesman for the agency has tracked down some emails belonging to the IT professional, Bryan Pagliano, in other people's accounts.

Charles Schwab has warned some customers about unusual account login activity and encouraged these customers to change their passwords. The financial services company said that username and password data may have been stolen from a non-Schwab source and used to successfully login to the customer's account online.

The New York State Office of the Attorney General has seen a steep increase in the number of reported data breaches this year. As of May 2nd, the agency received 459 data breach notices, a 40 percent uptick in reported data breaches in 2016, as compared to the same period in 2015 when the agency had only received 327 complaints. The group has pledged to fight the "escalating threat."

Google will send out notifications to employees after a data breach occurred at a third party company. The move comes after a document was emailed from a benefit management services firm that Google works with to another company. Thankfully the recipient deleted the document after realizing it wasn't intended for them, and then reported the mistake.

Microsoft's customers that are still using Windows Live Mail 2012 for desktop email will have to upgrade, because the service is no longer supported. Windows Live Mail 2012 is an old application will no longer work on the current system.

The 272 million email credentials that were discovered for sale on the dark web last week are 99.9 percent invalid. Hold Security discovered the list for sale for less than $1, but has since tested the data and found that the overwhelming majority of those credentials are fake. "The database is most likely a compilation of a few old data dumps collected by hacking Web services where people used their email address to register," Mail.ru explained. "Therefore, it is fair to assume that the sole purpose of issuing the report was to create media hype and draw the public attention …