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Lady Gaga Hackers Convicted in Germany

Two young hackers have been convicted in Germany for stealing and leaking unreleased songs by top recording artists including Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake and Mariah Carey.The two hackers, identified only as Christian M., 23, and Deniz A., 18, managed to install trojans on computers belonging to the managers of high-...

20 June 2011
11:14 GMT

Two Teenage GhostMarket Members Sentenced in UK

Two teenage members of the GhostMarket underground forum were sentenced last Friday in a UK court for breaking into the online systems of several companies to steal credit card data.Zachary Woodham, 19, and Louis Tobenhouse, 18, were arrested on 23 December 2010, following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police ...

17 May 2011
04:41 GMT

Russian Fraudster Gets Suspended Sentence for $10 Million RBS WorldPay Cyberheist

A 27-year-old Russian programmer named Eugene Anikin received a five-year suspended prison sentence today for his role in a major fraud operation that resulted in the theft of almost $10 million from US-based RBS WorldPay.The RBS WorldPay cyberheist is considered one of the most sophisticated and well organized cyber...

8 February 2011
00:40 GMT

Englishman Convicted for Game Console Hacking

A 40-year-old Leicester man was sentenced for running a game console hacking business which, according to the prosecutors, facilitated copyright infringement.Thomas Norwood ran a company called Modchip Fitters Ltd, which imported, sold and installed special electronic cards (chips) in Xbox and Nintendo Wii game conso...

10 January 2011
13:40 GMT

Wesley Snipes Goes to Prison for 3 Years

Actor Wesley Snipes has turned himself in and is now at a prison in Pennsylvania, where he’s started serving a 3-year jail sentence for several counts of tax evasion and conspiracy, People magazine reports. Just days ago, Snipes was telling Larry King that he still had hope he wouldn’t have to report...

10 December 2010
03:13 GMT

Sarah Palin's E-Mail Hacker Gets One Year in Custody

David Kernell, the 22-year-old man convicted of hacking into Sarah Palin's email account during the 2008 presidential elections, was sentenced to one year and one day in custody.In September 2008, Kernell used information gathered from public sources like Wikipedia to guess the answer to the security question pr...

15 November 2010
02:57 GMT

Snooki’s Idea of Community Service: Signing Autographs

Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi of MTV’s “Jersey Shore” came dangerously close of being slapped with a criminally annoying charge (yes, there is such a thing) but walked only with a slap on the wrist, a fine and a few hours of community service. At the time she was sentenced (early September), t...

13 October 2010
08:53 GMT

Woman Kills Boyfriend by Sitting on Him, Walks

Health experts point out whenever they get the chance that obesity is fatal but a man in Cleveland unfortunately got to learn that firsthand, when his obese girlfriend sat on him and killed him, back in August 2009. After pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter, Mia Landingham will walk, as a court sentenced her ...

23 January 2010
04:40 GMT

Australian Pizza Boy Becomes ATM Hacker

An Australian man has managed to escape a jail sentence despite admitting to stealing nearly AU$30,000 (around US $27,700) from ATMs. According to the prosecutors, he devised the attacks using information from an ATM repair manual found on the Web. Brian Sommer, 23, from Bundaberg, Queensland, used to work in a pizz...

24 October 2009
06:14 GMT

Man Only Fined £200 After Endangering Thousands of People

A Nottingham court decided to fine a former BNP senior official with £200 ($323) for leaking the political party's membership list onto the Internet last year. The man's action is likely to have indirectly caused 160 attacks on BNP members and/or their properties.The British National Party (BNP) is a ...

2 September 2009
09:41 GMT

Rapper T.I. Goes to Jail for One Year and a Day

Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., also known as T.I. or T.I.P. / Tip, has just been sentenced to one year and a day in prison following weapons charges stemming from his arrest in October 2007. The rapper must present himself voluntarily to prison to start serving his sentence within six to eight weeks, the presiding judge...

28 March 2009
05:14 GMT

Boy George Jailed for Assault on Male Escort

Boy George was a “drug-crazed idiot,” as his own attorney said in court a couple of hours ago, when he picked up a male escort in April 2007, handcuffed him to the wall, and lashed out at him with a chain while shouting insults. However, not even this defense could save the former Culture Club star fr...

17 January 2009
04:15 GMT

No Prison Time for Romanian NASA and U.S Navy Hacker

Victor Faur from Arad, Romania, caught the international headlines in 2006, when he was indicted in the U.S. for one count of conspiracy and nine of computer intrusion, for obtaining unauthorized access to systems belonging to several government institutions. After a trial that lasted almost a year, a local Romanian ...

11 November 2008
09:03 GMT

Wikileaks Ordered Back

Wikileaks.org is the site that blows the whistle on any corporate malpractice, or at least that's what it alleges itself to be. On the 14th of February, it was forced to shut down its primary domain after the Swiss Bank Julius Baer & Co had filed a complaint against it. Copies of documents showing that the bank ...

4 March 2008
04:41 GMT

Identity Theft = 3 Years Behind Bars

Earlier this month, I covered the joke that Fouad Mourtada had played by creating a Facebook profile and claiming he was King Mohammed VI's brother, Prince Moulay Rachid. He was swiftly arrested and the jury didn't take its time before coming up with a sentence. And it was a harsh one at that: 3 years in j...

26 February 2008
06:17 GMT

Kiefer Sutherland Spends Christmas in the Clink

I will always remember Kiefer Sutherland as a melancholic musketeer in a movie in which he starred long before he became a household name by playing Jack Bauer on the hit TV series "24". His character was drunk for about half the movie, and I always imagined he was a great actor for faking it so well. But judging fro...

6 December 2007
09:35 GMT

You Get Off a Lot Easier with Rape than with Hacking!

What I'm going to write next is about to astonish you, I sure know it made my jaw drop when I first got a hold of the news. Perhaps you've already read the material about the boy who shut down Internet access in Marshfield. If you didn't or you don't remember it too well, allow me to say it briefl...

3 September 2007
04:28 GMT

Blacks Killing Whites Are Twice More Likely to be Executed

America is an interesting democracy, still White and Christian. At least at the level of justice. Blacks convicted of killing whites have a higher likelihood than other killers to receive a death penalty, and even higher to actually get executed. A new research also shows African Americans on death row for killing no...

3 August 2007
14:11 GMT


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