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Her career is in the ascendancy thanks to her high-profile roles playing an Agatha Christie sleuth, a murderer linked to the Royals and the wife of a Beatle.

20-year-old Matthew Lane sent a text message to ABC News as his parents drove him to federal prison in Connecticut. "I'm just scared," he said, calling the whole situation "extremely sad." Barely a year earlier, while still a teenager, he helped launch what's been described as the biggest cyberattack in U.S. education history — a data breach that concerned authorities so much, it prompted briefings with senior government officials inside the White House Situation Room. The breach pierced the education technology company PowerSchool — used by 80% of school districts in North America... [and operating in about 90 countries around the world]. With threats to expose social security numbers, dates of birth, family information, grades, and even confidential medical information, the breach cornered PowerSchool into paying millions of dollars in ransom. "I think I need to go to prison for what I did," Lane told ABC News in an exclusive interview, speaking publicly for the first time about the headline-grabbing heist and his life as a cybercriminal. "It was disgusting, it was greedy, it was rooted in my own insecurities, it was wrong in every aspect," he said in the interview, two days before reporting to prison... At about 6:30 on a Tuesday morning last April, FBI agents started banging on the door of Lane's second-floor dorm room. "FBI! We have a search warrant," Lane recalled them shouting. They seized his devices and many of the luxury items he bought with "dirty" money, as he put it. He said he felt a "wave of relief.... I'm honestly thankful for the FBI," he said. "After they left, I was like, 'It's over ... I'm done with this'..." A federal judge in Massachusetts sentenced him to four years in federal prison and ordered him to pay more than $14 million in restitution. "In the wake of the breach, PowerSchool offered two years' worth of credit-monitoring and identity protection services to concerned customer," the article points out. But it also notes two other arrests in September of teenaged cybercriminals: - A 15-year-old boy in Illinois who allegedly attacked Las Vegas casinos, reportedly costing MGM Resorts alone more than $100 million - A British national who when he was 16 helped breach over 110 companies around the world and extort $115 million. But ironically, Lane tells ABC News it all started on Roblox, where he'd met cheaters, password-stealers, and cybercriminals sharing photos of their stacks of money, creating a "sense of camaraderie" Lane and others warn that online forums also attract criminal groups seeking to recruit potential hackers. "The bad guys are on all the platforms watching the kids playing," Hay said. "And when they see an elite-level performer, they go approach that kid, masquerading as another kid, and they go, 'Hey, you want to earn some [money]? ... Here are the tools, here are the techniques'...." According to Lane, he spent his "ill-gotten gains" on designer clothes, diamond jewelry, DoorDash deliveries, Airbnb rentals for him and his friends, and drugs — "lots of drugs." He said he would numb ever-present feelings of guilt with drugs — from high-potency marijuana to acid. But it was hacking that gave him the strongest high. "It's indescribable the adrenaline you get when you do something like that," he said. "It's way more than driving 120 miles per hour. ... Incomparable to any drug at all, as well." "On Monday, Roblox announced that, starting in June, it will offer age-checked accounts for younger users that limit what games they can play, and add 'more closely align content access, communication settings, and parental controls with a user's age.'"

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The Loose Women star, 61, lost an impressive 3.5 stone with weight-loss company Voy, which also promotes fat jabs.

Sainsbury's is threatening to prosecute thieves who swap premium eggs into cheaper boxes, amid a growing trend of the practice and rising food prices.

It was previously reported that Zayn 'punched' Louis in the face and cut his head after making a comment about his late mother during filming for a Netflix show.

The comedian, 37, was seen on his way inside Euridge Manor Farm looking dapper in his suit ahead of his nuptials to Roxy, 34.

They recently visited for a celebratory family dinner

Alina McCulloch, 20, from Great Bentley, has been shortlisted in the HBA Rising Star of the Year category.

Five weeks ago, Neil was told there was a free marathon space as someone else had pulled out due to an injury.

Anyone who publicly doubts the actions or opinions of President Trump is swiftly accused of being mad.

The 16-year-old, who accepted the amateur boxer's proposal at her birthday party, shared a fun selfie of the young couple, soaking up the sun and leaning on one another.

Princess Anne's daughter is taking part in the Barefoot Retreats Burnham Market International Horse Trials, in Norfolk, one of the major equestrian events of the year.

The Reform UK leader says his party will take even more seats in Labour's heartland territory than Boris Johnson famously did in 2019.

The Atlantic magazine published a report Friday revealing a series of troubling incidents and allegations involving Patel, who has since threatened legal action, calling the claims 'false reporting.'

Nextcloud joined a project to create a sovereign replacement for Microsoft Office called "Euro-Office". But after that project forked OnlyOffice, OnlyOffice suspended its partnership with Nextcloud. "They removed all references to our brand/attribute as required by our license," argued OnlyOffice CEO Lev Bannov on March 30th. ("The core issue here isn't just about what the AGPL license states, but about the additional provisions we, as the authors, have included... If the Euro-Office team believes our approach conflicts with the AGPLv3 license, we invite them to submit an official request to FSF for review.") But this week the FSF responded (as "the steward of the GNU family of General Public Licenses"), criticizing OnlyOffice's "attempt to impose an additional restriction on the AGPLv3" and calling it "inconsistent with the freedoms granted by the license," in a blog post from FSF licensing/compliance manager Krzysztof Siewicz: It is possible to modify the (A)GPLv3 with additional terms, but only by adhering to the terms of the license... The (A)GPLv3 makes it clear that it permits all licensees to remove any additional terms that are "further restrictions" under the (A)GPLv3. It states, "[i]f the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term"... We urge OnlyOffice to clarify the situation by making it unambiguous that OnlyOffice is licensed under the AGPLv3, and that users who already received copies of the software are allowed to remove any further restrictions. Additionally, if they intend to continue to use the AGPLv3 for future releases, they should state clearly that the program is licensed under the AGPLv3 and make sure they remove any further restrictions from their program documentation and source code. Confusing users by attaching further restrictions to any of the FSF's family of GNU General Public Licenses is not in line with free software. "If FSF determines that our license and project align with AGPLv3, we will continue as an open-source initiative," OnlyOffice's CEO had written in March. "However, if the decision goes against us, we are ready to consider other options."

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Dan Walker has received the backing of broadcaster Sue Barker as he is accused of sexism, misogyny and bullying by his former Channel 5 News co-star Claudia-Liza Vanderpuije.

The presenter, 40, and her partner, Spencer Matthews, 37, share sons Theo, 7, and Otto, four, and daughter Gigi, five.

Brown, a founding member of the social media collective, equalised for 1-1 against the YouTube Allstars with a stunning trivela free-kick.

The daughter of Jude Law and Sadie Frost, 25, looked incredible as she posed in an array of outfits, all centred around a chic leather jacket.

Judex Atshatshi, 18, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Saturday, charged with intent to damage property and being reckless as to whether life would be endangered.