Bernie Madoff made 24 cents an hour in a federal prison
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By the time Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff died of kidney failure, the man who bilked unsuspecting people out of billions of dollars had accumulated a nest egg of just $710 for almost 3,000 hours of work as a prison orderly.
Madoff had served 12 years of a 150-year sentence in a federal prison in North Carolina when he died in prison at 82 in April. Details of Madoff's life behind bars were first reported by The City, an online not-for-profit news organization that obtained his Federal Bureau of Prisons file. According to the outlet's review of the documents, Madoff left behind a modest stockpile that included eight AAA batteries, four religious paperbacks, a Casio calculator, four packages of popcorn, a packet of ramen soup and a box of gefilte fish.A cybercriminal group claims it stole personal data belonging to more than 500 million Ticketmaster customers. Although the event ticketing service, owned by Live Nation Entertainment, hasn't confirmed the attack, security experts warn that it could put users of the platform at risk for a range of scams.
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