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Chequila Motley, a former employee of an Alabama state government agency, has admitted participating in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme. On Wednesday, she pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated identity theft and one count of conspiracy to file false claims.
She was indicted in late January.
Motley used he... |
10 May 2013
14:01 GMT |
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United States prosecutors have charged 8 individuals suspected of being involved in a massive cybercrime ring that caused losses of $45 million (€34 million) to financial institutions from all over the world in a matter of hours. The 8 suspects are believed to be the New York cell of an international criminal o... |
10 May 2013
03:33 GMT |
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After hacking into the website of Turkey’s Foreign Ministry, some of the country’s officials said that the notorious RedHack group would be placed on the list of terrorist organizations. However, prosecutors have ruled that the hackers are not terrorists. Although they’ve hacked several high-profil... |
10 May 2013
02:37 GMT |
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29-year-old Romanian national Adrian-Tiberiu Oprea, accused of participating in the massive payment card data theft scheme that targeted the point-of-sale (POS) systems of hundreds of US merchants, has pleaded guilty to the charges brought against him.
Oprea admitted to one count of conspiracy to commit computer fra... |
9 May 2013
05:34 GMT |
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Back in March, we learned that 27-year-old Bernard Beliard, a State Corrections officer of the South Florida Reception Center was arrested and charged with access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Prosecutors alleged that Beliard used his official law enforcement position to gain access to personal informa... |
8 May 2013
07:34 GMT |
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The individuals from “PayPal 14” – a group of activists accused of launching the 2010 cyberattacks against PayPal after the company refused to continue processing donations for WikiLeaks – are due in court on May 14. Anonymous hacktivists have released a statement in which they urge everyone ... |
6 May 2013
05:10 GMT |
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University of Georgia (UGA) police are confident that the man who committed suicide back in December 2012, 26-year-old Charles Staples Stell, is the one who hacked into the university’s systems, and the one who stole the records of 8,500 individuals.
“This case has been closed based on the fact it ... |
29 April 2013
09:03 GMT |
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On Tuesday, Matthew Keys, the former Reuters deputy social media editor accused of helping Anonymous hackers deface the Los Angeles Times website, pleaded not guilty. The Huffington Post reports that the journalist hasn’t made any statements, but his lawyer has provided some details regarding their defen... |
24 April 2013
04:30 GMT |
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29-year-old Eric Gunnar Gisse of San Antonio, Texas, has been arrested and charged with felony breach of computer security after allegedly installing backdoors on 2,723 servers belonging to his former employer, the world renowned web hosting company Hostgator.
According to court documents obtained by Ars Techn... |
20 April 2013
06:44 GMT |
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Earlier this week, we learned that Italian authorities ordered Internet service providers (ISPs) to block a total of 27 file-sharing websites. It turns out that some of the ISPs and file sharing site Rapidgator have appealed the decision.
Rapidgator, a highly popular website in Italy, has hired Fulvio Sarzana, a law... |
19 April 2013
05:41 GMT |
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Voltage Pictures – the movie studio that’s famous not only for its movies, but also for filing lawsuits against individuals that allegedly pirate its motion pictures – is suing a user whom it accuses of illegally distributing the 2011 movie “Killer Joe.”
The profit generated by the movi... |
19 April 2013
04:53 GMT |
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Gottfrid Svartholm, the co-founder of The Pirate Bay, has been charged by Swedish prosecutors for his alleged role in hacking a number of companies, including a bank. In addition to Svartholm, three other individuals have been charged for the crimes. The co-founder of the world-renowned torrent website was deported ... |
17 April 2013
03:59 GMT |
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21-year-old Lewys Stephen Martin of the United Kingdom – charged back in November 2012 with disrupting various websites, including the ones of Oxford University, Cambridge University and Kent Police – has pleaded guilty to the charges brought against him.
According to Kent Police, the hacker has pleaded ... |
16 April 2013
07:00 GMT |
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A 17-year-old youth from Australia, suspected of being a member of Anonymous, was charged on Friday with hacking-related offences.
According to the Australian Federal Police, the suspect “committed serious offences” on behalf of Anonymous.
He is charged with six counts of unauthorized modification... |
5 April 2013
05:43 GMT |
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The case that revolves around Aaron Swartz’s suicide is far from being over. While many blame current US laws for the tragic event, others blame the prosecutors that handled the case of the Reddit co-founder. According to prosecutor Jack W. Pirozzolo of Massachusetts, Carmen Ortiz – the district attorne... |
4 April 2013
04:47 GMT |
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26-year-old Romanian national Laurentiu Cristian Busca was sentenced on Tuesday to 5 years in prison for participating in a phishing scam that targeted customers of various US companies, particularly financial institutions.
According to the US Department of Justice, Busca and his co-conspirators sent out emails rep... |
27 March 2013
16:01 GMT |
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The case of famous activist Barrett Brown continues. According to reports, his mother – accused of helping Brown hide a laptop from the FBI – has pleaded guilty to the charges brought against her. The Dallas Observer reports that Karen McCutchin faces a maximum sentence of 12 months in prison and a $100,... |
27 March 2013
08:58 GMT |
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Back in February 2011, members of the Anonymous group (at the time they were a “group”) and their supporters launched distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against websites owned by Koch Industries.
A few months later, the world learned that the FBI had launched an investigation into the attacks.
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27 March 2013
08:47 GMT |
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Matthew Weaver, aged 22, a former student of California State University San Marcos, has admitted stealing the identities and passwords of 745 students in an attempt to influence campus elections. According to U-T San Diego, in March 2012, Weaver was running for president of the campus’ student council. To mak... |
23 March 2013
05:43 GMT |
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Experts have often pointed out that insider threats can be just as dangerous as a sophisticated attack coming from outside the organization. An incident that occurred in Hoboken, a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, is a perfect example.
46-year-old Patrick Ricciardi, the chief IT officer for the mayor’s offic... |
21 March 2013
04:59 GMT |
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Matthew Keys, the Reuters deputy social media editor accused of aiding Anonymous hackers deface a website of the LA Times, has come forward with a short statement to deny the accusations brought against him.
Authorities say Keys has provided the hackers with the login credentials to the network of his former employe... |
21 March 2013
04:32 GMT |
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On Monday, we learned that Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, the activist accused of leaking the details of around 120,000 AT&T customers, was sentenced to 41 months in prison and three years of supervised release.
Shortly after the verdict came in, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) revealed that it was joining Auer... |
19 March 2013
16:51 GMT |
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Andrew Auernheimer – aka “Weev,” the Internet activist found guilty in November 2012 of hacking into the systems of AT&T and stealing the details of around 120,000 iPad owners – has been reportedly sentenced to 41 months in prison and three years of supervised release.
Tweets ... |
18 March 2013
12:16 GMT |
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46-year-old Shahin Abdollahi, and 35-year-old Jeffrey Thomas Wilkinson, both from California, have been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion and wire fraud, and one count of wire fraud.
According to authorities, the two hacked into at least 13 point-of-sale systems located at Subway rest... |
18 March 2013
05:07 GMT |
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Matthew Keys, the Reuters deputy social media editor indicted earlier this week for conspiring with Anonymous hackers to breach his former employer’s website, has been “suspended with pay.” However, the story is far from being over. According to The Huffington Post, Keys’ attorney argues that... |
16 March 2013
06:06 GMT |
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The US Justice Department has indicted Matthew Keys, a deputy social media editor at Reuters, for allegedly helping Anonymous hacktivists gain access to a server of the Tribune Company and deface the Los Angeles Times’ website. Keys has been charged with one count of attempted transmission of information to da... |
15 March 2013
03:58 GMT |
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Sports retailer Genesco, which operates over 2,400 stores in North America and Europe, has filed a lawsuit against Visa, blaming the company for the considerable penalties imposed on merchants and banks that suffer data breaches.
Genesco’s systems were hacked back in 2010. At the time, the company didn’t... |
12 March 2013
10:35 GMT |
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A judge has dismissed the class-action lawsuit filed against LinkedIn by Katie Szpyrka and Khalilah Gilmore-Wright as a result of the massive data breach suffered by the company last year. According to the order to dismiss, provided by DataBreaches.net, Northern California US District Judge Edward J. Davila argued ... |
7 March 2013
11:12 GMT |
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The sentencing of Russian national Kristina Svechinskaya, known as the world’s most attractive hacker, has been postponed for the second time this year. The sentencing was initially scheduled for January 11, but it was later moved to March 1, and now to April 19, RAPSI News reports.
Although she has been named... |
7 March 2013
07:12 GMT |
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Michael Musacchio, a 61-year-old man from Plano, Texas, was convicted by a federal jury for conspiring to hack into the computer networks of his former employer. According to the US Department of Justice, between 2002 and 2004, Musacchio was the president of a third-party logistics company called Exel Transportation... |
4 March 2013
10:30 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, we learned that the sentencing of Hector Xavier Monsegur, better known as Sabu, the leader of the notorious LulzSec hacker collective, was postponed once again. At the time, there was no reason provided for the decision.
However, on Monday, a fax from the US Attorney of the Southern District of... |
26 February 2013
03:30 GMT |
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The sentencing of Hector Xavier Monsegur – better known as Sabu, the leader of the infamous LulzSec hacker collective – has been postponed once again without any explanation. According to The Guardian, Monsegur was scheduled to appear at a Manhattan federal court on Friday where he should have been sente... |
23 February 2013
03:53 GMT |
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Billionaire Alki David and the recording artists who have filed a lawsuit against CNET and CBS for facilitating and promoting copyright infringement have failed to convince the judge to issue a preliminary injunction.
According to TorrentFreak, the judge ruled that banning the companies from distributing BitTorrent ... |
21 February 2013
07:43 GMT |
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Henk Krol, a Dutch Member of Parliament (MP) and the leader of the 50plus political party, has hacked into the systems of the Diagnostics for You medical laboratory in an attempt to prove that the organization was vulnerable. Despite the fact that his intentions were good, a court has ordered him to pay a $750... |
19 February 2013
06:49 GMT |
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John Hunt, a former Minnesota Department of Natural Resources employee accused of illegally accessing thousands of driver’s license records, has been charged with six counts. In addition, four of his victims have filed a class-action lawsuit against him. According to Northland Newscenter, during a four-year pe... |
8 February 2013
16:01 GMT |
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The North Shore University Hospital is being sued by 12 of its patients after records containing their personal information have been stolen from the organization.
The stolen records contained names, addresses, social security numbers, medical history and other details, CBS New York reports.
The main problem is tha... |
8 February 2013
14:51 GMT |
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A total of 144 people have won substantial damages after settling the News of the World phone hacking case. 17 of them have also received a public apology. According to The Guardian, Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson is among those who has asked for an apology. Other public figures who have been compensated are James... |
8 February 2013
09:19 GMT |
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Jeremy Hammond – the LulzSec hacker accused, among other things, of providing WikiLeaks with the Stratfor files – has been moved to solitary confinement for an undetermined period of time.
According to his supporters, the reason behind the decision is unknown.
“This injustice was further co... |
5 February 2013
09:34 GMT |
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Anonymous has released a statement regarding the sentencing of 22-year-old Christopher Weatherhead, known on the hacking scene as Nerdo.
Weatherhead has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in the cyberattacks launched against PayPal back in 2010.
The hacktivists believe that the trial was not fair. F... |
28 January 2013
11:09 GMT |
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Self-proclaimed Anonymous spokesperson Barrett Brown has been charged with one count of concealment of evidence and one count of corrupting concealing evidence. This is the third series of charges brought against the 31-year-old activist.
Authorities say that, in March 2012, Brown concealed two laptops in an effort ... |
26 January 2013
06:08 GMT |
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Two of the Anonymous hackers from the United Kingdom, involved back in 2010 in the distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against PayPal, have been sentenced to prison by the Southwark Crown Court in London.
Christopher Weatherhead, who pleaded not guilty in November 2012, has been sentenced to 1.5 years in pr... |
25 January 2013
02:48 GMT |
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41-year-old Tamara Diane Brown, of Eugene, Oregon, has pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud. Authorities say the woman sold over 5,000 mobile phones on eBay after illegally obtaining them from Sprint.
According to the FBI, the fraudster was working for The Pape Group when she started ordering Sprint mobile phon... |
9 January 2013
08:56 GMT |
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27-year-old Romanian national Cezar Butu has been sentenced to serve 21 months in prison for his role in the international fraud scheme that targeted payment card data from hundreds of United States merchants. Butu, who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud and agreed to be sentence... |
8 January 2013
09:11 GMT |
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Vladimir Zdorovenin, a 55-year-old Russian national accused of carrying out sophisticated cybercrimes has been given a three-year prison sentence by the Manhattan federal court.
Zdorovenin – who was arrested in Zurich, Switzerland, in March 2011 – was extradited in January 2012 to New York. He pleaded gu... |
7 January 2013
03:51 GMT |
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After alleged Stratfor hacker Jeremy Hammond was denied bail, Anonymous hacktivists and his supporters have asked the judge assigned to oversee the case to step down because of a “direct conflict of interest.” The judge has refused to do so.
Anonymous argued that Judge Loretta Preska’s husband was... |
29 December 2012
07:07 GMT |
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Over the past few months, Japanese authorities have managed to identify a number of individuals suspected of developing and using malware against mobile phone users. However, it appears that the problem is not catching them, but prosecuting them.
Back in October, Japanese police announced that they had arrested a nu... |
29 December 2012
04:23 GMT |
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Barrett Brown, the now-infamous activist and self-proclaimed Anonymous spokesperson, has pleaded not guilty to all the 12 counts in the indictment filed against him. Brown is being charged for his role in the hack that targeted Stratfor at the end of 2011.
Authorities are not accusing him of being involved in the h... |
19 December 2012
04:55 GMT |
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36-year-old Christopher Chaney of Jacksonville, Florida, better known as the man who hacked into the email accounts of several celebrities, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Besides the 10-year prison sentence, the judge has also ordered the hacker to pay $66,179 (51,000 EUR) in restitution.
“Illegal... |
18 December 2012
03:35 GMT |
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37-year-old Mikael Patrick Sallnert from Sweden has been sentenced by a US court to 48 months in prison for his role in a criminal enterprise that earned crooks a total of $71 million (55 million EUR).
According to the US Department of Justice, Sallnert established and operated a credit card payment processing servi... |
17 December 2012
10:35 GMT |
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After ten years of legal battles, it seems that NASA hacker Garry McKinnon is finally off the hook. UK authorities decided that they would not commence a criminal investigation against him.
In a joint statement, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) reveal that the decision co... |
15 December 2012
04:24 GMT |
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