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A former IT specialist, who hacked into the computer network of a Miami-based charity where he used to work, has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment. The hacker deleted numerous important files from the systems and disabled the voice mail service.
Back in August, we reported that a computer technician, named ... |
27 November 2009
08:19 GMT |
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The U.S. Department of Justice announces that former spam kingpin Alan M. Ralsky was sentenced to 51 months in jail, on Monday, for instrumenting a stock fraud scheme. Nine of his accomplices have also received prison sentences for their role in the operation.Alan M. Ralsky, 64, of West Bloomfield, Michigan, used to ... |
25 November 2009
08:43 GMT |
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Dmitriy Guzner, 19, of Verona, New Jersey was sentenced to one year in prison for launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against websites belonging to the Church of Scientology in January 2008. Following his release, the young DDoSer will also spend two years on probation.According to the prosecutors ... |
23 November 2009
09:59 GMT |
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Four members of a banking fraud ring operating in UK have been sentenced to a total of over thirteen years in prison. The men, who used a computer trojan to get into the online banking accounts of their victims, were arrested in London back in April.In April 2009, we reported on the arrest of nine London-based suspec... |
17 November 2009
10:08 GMT |
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Three brothers from Seacole Close, Acton, have been sentenced to prison for cloning credit cards and stealing PIN numbers from ATMs. The three previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud charges. Ahmed Charmaga, 25, Mahmoud Charmaga, 23, and Mohammed Charmaga, 28, were running their illegal operation from an ... |
17 July 2009
05:19 GMT |
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Matthew Weigman, a 19-year-old legally blind phreaker from Massachusetts, has been sentenced to over 11 years behind bars for making fake 911 calls, illegally listening to the phone conversations of others and harassing a Verizon investigator. Sean Benton, one of Weigman's partners in crime, also received an 18-... |
30 June 2009
08:08 GMT |
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A Minneapolis federal judge has sentenced Sergiu Daniel Popa, 23, from Shelby Township, Michigan, to eight and a half years in jail for running a phishing scheme, which lasted almost seven years and totaled $700,000 in losses.Popa emigrated to U.S. from Romania and started his illegal online activities in June 2000, ... |
29 May 2009
09:03 GMT |
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A federal judge has sentenced Ovidiu-Ionut Nicola-Roman, a Romanian citizen arrested in 2007 on phishing charges, to 50 months in a federal prison, according to Wired. In July 2008, the phisher pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit fraud. Ovidiu-Ionut Nicola-Roman, 23, originally from Craiova, Romania,... |
31 March 2009
05:19 GMT |
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John Kenneth Schiefer, 27, from Los Angeles, has been sentenced by a federal court to four years in prison and the payment of $22,500 in damages and fines for infecting some one quarter million computers with information-stealing malware. The hacker has been working for the past several months as a technician for Mah... |
6 March 2009
06:23 GMT |
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The Ukrainian hacker that participated in what many consider to be the biggest identity theft scam of all times has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, in Turkey. Despite causing losses of millions of dollars worldwide, he went to trial and was arrested for hacking several Turkish banks. Maksym Yastremskiy, aka &ld... |
9 January 2009
04:31 GMT |
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