- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 24th, 2016
Man Who Hacked Yahoo in 2012 Sentenced to Two Years in Prison
Irony of the year: D33ds Company hacker sentenced to prison on the same day Yahoo admits to massive data breach
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 1st, 2016
Romanian Hacker Guccifer Sentenced to 52 Months in a US Prison
Hacker pleaded guilty to all charges brought by US officials
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 29th, 2016
Career ATM Skimmer Gets 70 Months in a US Prison for Stealing $900,000
Crook was also jailed in Ireland for the same crime
- Server related
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 27th, 2016
Citibank Sysadmin Gets 21 Months in Jail for Wiping Bank's Routers
Angry employee shuts down 90% of Citibank servers
- Finances
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 22nd, 2016
Man Behind Massive Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Gets 18 Months in Prison
Suspect had at one point control over 7% of all Bitcoin
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 19th, 2016
St. Louis Cardinals Scout to Spend Four Years in Jail for Hacking Houston Astros
Chris Correa sentenced to 46 months in prison
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 27th, 2016
Estonian Behind DNSChanger Malware Gets 7 Years in Prison
Only one crook from Operation Ghost Click is still at large
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 21st, 2016
Chinese National Sentenced to Death After Leaking 150,000 Classified Files
Chinese man leaked details about China's encryption
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 8th, 2016
Vengeful Hacker Risks Ten Years in Prison for DDoSing Security Firm's Website
Hacker also harassed security researcher by spamming his IRC channel and by sending sex toys to his house
- Finances
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 13th, 2016
Bitcoin Transactions in Russia Could Carry a Four-Year Prison Sentence
Bank execs could face up to seven years in prison
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 1st, 2016
Second Blackshades RAT Developer Gets 5 Years of Probation REUTERS
Blackshades co-creators gets off easy, no jail time
- Digital Rights/Piracy
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 14th, 2016
Ten-Year Prison Sentences for Piracy? Public Says Definitely Not
98% of consultees tell the UK law makers to calm down
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 11th, 2016
Turkish Hacker Sentenced to Record 334 Years in Prison
Young hacker gets 135 years in jail, on top of his previous sentence of 199 years 7 months and 10 days
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 6th, 2016
After Years of Legal Battles, Latvian Hacker That Created Gozi Virus Is Now a Free Man
Deniss Calovskis is now free to return to Latvia
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 24th, 2015
13-Years-Old Software Bug Led to the Early Release of 3,200 US Inmates Each Year
Coding snafu leads to prisoners getting out of jail too soon
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 3rd, 2015
Man Who Tried to Hire Hacker to Wipe Out Court Fines Sentenced to 2-4 Years in Prison
Landis faced up to 7 years in prison, got only 2-4 years
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- August 16th, 2011