Russian espionage

A 2026 documentary film about the 2018 Novichok poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England, and the fatal exposure of British civilian Dawn Sturgess.

Kim Philby, a senior British intelligence officer, spent decades as a Soviet double agent before defecting to Moscow in 1963. His espionage betrayed countless agents across Eastern Europe and fundamentally damaged trust between MI6 and the CIA.

Between 2007 and 2015, billions of euros in suspicious transactions passed through Danske Bank's Estonian branch. A whistleblower raised the alarm and was ignored. The fallout cost the bank over $2 billion and sent employees to prison.

U.S. federal prosecutors charged four members of China's People's Liberation Army on February 10, 2020, with orchestrating one of the largest data breaches in history. The defendants allegedly exploited a vulnerability in Equifax's systems to steal sensitive information from approximately 145 million Americans over a two-month period in 2017.

The 2021 Hafnium attack: Chinese state hackers compromised thousands of Exchange servers globally. From espionage to worldwide ransomware chaos. Read the full story here.

In 2014, entertainment giant Sony was hit by one of the largest cyberattacks ever carried out against a private company, with around 100 terabytes of data stolen. The attack was attributed to North Korea and seen as an attempt to suppress a film's release.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed by electric chair on June 19, 1953, at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York, making them the only American civilians put to death for espionage during the Cold War. The couple had been convicted of conspiracy to pass classified information about atomic bomb designs to the Soviet Union.

In October 1967, Chief Warrant Officer John Anthony Walker Jr. drove to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, DC, in his red sports car and offered classified US Navy documents to Soviet security personnel. What began as a single act of espionage would become the worst security breach in US naval history.