Yet, despite these and physical security safeguards the company had in place, information about their secret new project was leaked to the press.

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During the investigation, Mr. Monsegur, who lived in and worked from a public-housing project in New York City, received information on a day-to-day basis of "upwards of two dozen vulnerabilities" in computer systems from a network of cybercriminals, Mr. Pastore said in court documents released Thursday.

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Through the Internet, with a few keystrokes and the click of a button, a young person can call up information for a research project, make new friends or discover new hobbies.

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The new project plans to produce a smartphone app that would provide health information to players, communicate findings of the research and help direct them quickly to better treatments.

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