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A Newcastle man received a 15-month jail sentence after he admitted stealing money from bank accounts whose passwords he guessed using information shared on Facebook.According to The Telegraph, Iain Wood, 33, spent up to 18 hours per day online trying to figure out passwords to other people's accounts.Wood targe... |
16 August 2011
10:33 GMT |
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In light of the recent arrests of Anonymous and LulzSec members, the UK Metropolitan Police Service warns people against taking up hacktivism.Anonymous has already issued a statement which defiantly dismisses the recent wave of arrests across US and Europe as futile attempts at disrupting its social movement."It is o... |
3 August 2011
14:16 GMT |
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A Georgia man who used to be in the business of trafficking stolen credit cards was sentenced to ten years in prison on Friday. His actions are said to have caused losses of $36 million.Rogelio Hackett, Jr., 26, was arrested in 2009 after being identified as one of the sellers of stolen credit card details on undergr... |
25 July 2011
01:04 GMT |
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A Japanese man was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for creating and spreading a data damaging piece of malware commonly known as the ika-tako virus.Masato Nakatsuji, 28, from Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, created ika-tako - squid-octopus in Japanese - sometime in 2009, according to his own account.However,... |
21 July 2011
10:56 GMT |
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A former computer technician from Minnesota was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for hacking into his neighbour's wireless network and framing them for illegal acts.Barry Ardolf, 46, who used to work as a computer technician at Medronic, launched a personal vendetta against his neighbours, the Kostolnik&rsq... |
13 July 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Three members of an international phishing organization were sentenced to a total of thirteen and a half years in prison on Friday at Snaresbrook Crown Court in UK.Ayodeji John Kareem, 38, Vincent Alonge, 31, and Babatunde Fafore, 41, were arrested together with four other individuals last August following an investi... |
12 July 2011
10:38 GMT |
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A 43-year-old Jordanian man was sentenced to ten years in prison yesterday in Missouri Western District Court for his role in a scheme that involved stealing credentials from various websites and using them to obtain access to people's bank accounts.
Sael Mustafa, 43, of Gladstone, Mo., and a citizen of Jorda... |
9 July 2011
05:10 GMT |
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The lead defendant in a major phishing case known as Operation Phish Phry received sentences amounting to 13 years in prison.Kenneth Joseph Lucas, II, 27, of Los Angeles, received an eleven-year sentence last week for his role in an international phishing scheme shut down in 2009 by the FBI and Egyptian law enforceme... |
29 June 2011
07:57 GMT |
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A computer programmer who built a botnet to DDoS online publications for running a story about him was sentenced to two years in prison.The story of Bruce Raisley, 48, of Kansas City, Missouri, began back in 2000, when he broke off ties with a group called "Perverted Justice" that hunted and exposed online predators.... |
18 April 2011
10:43 GMT |
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A 27-year-old Pennsylvania man was sentenced to three years in prison for stealing over $100,000 from a currency exchange service, after previously serving 13 months in jail for stock fraud.Van T. Dinh made the news headlines in 2003, when at the the age of 19 he became the youngest person ever to be charged with ide... |
1 April 2011
10:53 GMT |
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A hacker was sentenced to over nine years in prison for installing malware on various computers at the medical clinic where he was employed.Jesse William McGraw, 26, worked as a security guard at the W.B. Carrell Memorial Clinic in Dallas, but in his spare time he was a member of a hacking crew called the Elektronic ... |
22 March 2011
12:48 GMT |
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A 29-year-old man who stole 400 billion virtual poker chips from online gaming giant Zynga was sentenced to two years in prison.Ashley Mitchell, 29, of Little Park Road, Paignton, UK, admitted earlier this year to hacking into Zynga's back-end systems by using stolen employee credentials and fraudulently crediti... |
22 March 2011
05:36 GMT |
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A California man was sentenced to seven years in prison for his activity as the leader of a credit card fraud ring that stole over $100,000 from eighteen financial institutions.Jonathan Edward Vergnetti, 39, of Alhambra, CA, was arrested along with five other co-conspirators back in May 2010 after obtaining multiple ... |
11 February 2011
11:58 GMT |
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A former CIA agent imprisoned since 1997 for spying for Russia, received a new 8-year sentence after sending his son around the world to collect money owed to him by foreign intelligence agencies.Harold Nicholson, 59, aka "Batman," worked 16 years as an agent for the CIA. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison in 199... |
19 January 2011
13:26 GMT |
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A Michigan man had criminal charges brought against him after he accessed his wife's email account and sharing the messages inside with the woman's first husband.Leon Walker, 33, of Rochester Hills, was charged with one felony count of unlawful access to confidential data after he snooped through his wife&#... |
27 December 2010
09:57 GMT |
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A former UNIX engineer was sentenced to 41 months in prison for planting a logic bomb with the purpose of bringing Fannie Mae's entire computer network down.Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana, 36, of Montgomery County, Maryland, was sentenced U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz yesterday after a federal jury found ... |
18 December 2010
07:51 GMT |
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A Scotsman was sentenced to 18 month in prison and ordered to pay £5,000 for his role in an operation that involved infecting thousands of computers worldwide with malware.Matthew Anderson, 33, from Drummuir, Scotland, was a member of an international gang of hackers known as m00p, which developed and distribut... |
24 November 2010
03:56 GMT |
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A Miami man was sentenced to 121 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for purchasing and selling thousands of stolen credit card details on the Internet.Juan Javier Cardenas, 45, known as Maceo, was charged in June with one count of conspiracy to traffic in unauthorized credit card numbers a... |
19 November 2010
06:45 GMT |
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A Texas man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for instrumenting a software piracy scheme, which involved selling over $1 million worth of unlicensed computer programs over the Internet.Todd Alan Cook, 24, of Wichita Falls, Texas, pleaded guilty on March 11, 2010, in the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, VA, to a ... |
1 November 2010
11:01 GMT |
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An information technology director, who took revenge on his former employer after being fired by deleting part of his website, was sentenced to 27 months in prison.Darnell H. Albert-El, 53, of Richmond, VA, pleaded guilty to one count of intentionally damaging a protected computer without authorization on June 29, 20... |
1 November 2010
06:15 GMT |
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A former University of Florida employee was sentenced to a year in prison after using the personal information of his co-workers to complete online health surveys.Cam Giang, 31, of San Francisco, CA, pled guilty back in July to one count of wire fraud and one of unlawful use of a Social Security number.According to p... |
29 October 2010
04:58 GMT |
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A New York man accused of leading a multi-national identity theft and fraud operation, which involved stealing money from home equity lines of credit (HELOC) accounts, was sentenced to 69 months in prison.The DOJ announced [pdf] that Hakeem Olokodana, 43, of Queens, New York, was sentenced in the U.S. District C... |
11 October 2010
04:19 GMT |
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The former president and CEO of a telemarketing company that billed hundreds of thousands of consumers and businesses without their knowledge, was sentenced to 276 months in prison.Neal D. Saferstein, 37, of Mount Laurel, NJ, was the President and Chief Executive Officer of GoInternet.net Inc., a telemarketing compan... |
11 October 2010
02:26 GMT |
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A Venezuelan man, who stole over 10 millions of VoIP minutes from US companies and resold them, was sentenced to ten years in prison and ordered to pay $1 million in restitution.Edwin Andrew Pena, 27, was arrested back in 2006 under suspicion of conspiracy to commit computer hacking and wire fraud, but he fled t... |
25 September 2010
06:18 GMT |
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Two men responsible for hijacking the comcast.net domain in 2008 and redirecting visitors to a rogue website, were sentenced yesterday to 18 months in prison.Christopher Allen Lewis, a.k.a. "EBK," 20, of Newark, Delaware, and Michael Paul Nebel, a.k.a. "Slacker," 28, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, both pleaded guilty earlie... |
25 September 2010
04:53 GMT |
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A California man was sentenced to 72 months in prison for helping credit card fraudsters launder $2.5 million dollars between 2004 and 2006.The Department of Justice announced the sentencing of Cesar Carranza, 38, a resident of Long Beach, California, for his role in multiple money laundering operations on Thursday.A... |
18 September 2010
02:10 GMT |
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Two fraudsters who ran a credit card counterfeiting business out of an flat in North London have been sentenced to a total of over five years in prison.Gabriel Yew, 39, and Cheng Chee Weng, 28, were arrested earlier this year following an investigation by the Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit (DCPCU) and the We... |
17 September 2010
01:20 GMT |
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A 25-year-old Brit who used to work for the MI6 was sentenced to 12 months in jail after he attempted to sell secret information to Dutch intelligence agents.Daniel Houghton, 25, of Hoxton, east London, worked as a software engineer for the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as the MI6, for fiv... |
6 September 2010
16:16 GMT |
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A Nigerian national was sentenced to 151 months in prison last week for instrumenting various advance-fee scams that lead to losses of over $1.3 million.Okpako Mike Diamreyan, 31, of Nigeria was found guilty by a jury in Connecticut back in February of three counts of wire fraud stemming from his activity as an Inte... |
6 September 2010
04:12 GMT |
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A 21-year-old hacker involved in the 2008 hijacking of the comcast.net domain name, which saw legitimate traffic being redirected to a rogue website, received a four-month prison sentence and was ordered to pay almost $130,000 in restitution.For over five hours during 28 and 29 of May 2008, Comcast customers trying t... |
10 August 2010
15:15 GMT |
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Terry Childs, the former San Francisco computer engineer who held the city's multimillion-dollar network hostage for almost two weeks in 2008, was sentenced to four years in prison late last week. The rogue admin already served 755 days in jail since he was arrested making him eligible for probation in around si... |
9 August 2010
10:17 GMT |
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A sting performed by journalists at computer repair shops around London last year, ended with a conviction for one of the technicians caught abusing customer trust. Grzegorz Zachodni, 30, received a nine month prison sentence for trying to log into an online banking account using a password found on a computer brough... |
9 August 2010
08:57 GMT |
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Eleven members of a West London-based Ukrainian gang were sentenced to prison today for stealing £4.5 million (over $6.8 million) in public money via tax fraud. The money were used to buy expensive goods, fast cars and rent luxury apartments.According to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) investigators, the fraudsters... |
5 July 2010
11:43 GMT |
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Hacker Croll, the hacker who embarrassed Twitter a year ago by making hundreds of its confidential corporate documents public, received a five-month suspended prison sentence last week. The Frenchman was also responsible for accessing without authorization the Twitter profiles of several celebrities including US Pres... |
28 June 2010
02:54 GMT |
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A 20-year-old Nebraska resident has been sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay $20,000 for participating in a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against Church of Scientology websites. The attack was part of a larger campaign against CoS led by a group of hacktivists calling themselves Anonymous... |
26 May 2010
10:53 GMT |
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Albert Gonzales, the most prolific credit card thief in history, was sentenced to twenty years in a federal prison yesterday. The sentence is only for the 2005 attacks against TJX, Office Max, Barnes & Noble, Dave & Busters and a few other retailers; however, the hacker is also awaiting sentencing in a different case... |
26 March 2010
10:28 GMT |
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The man who secretly recorded ESPN reporter Erin Andrews changing in a hotel room and subsequently leaked the footage onto the Web, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison yesterday. The news has attracted the attention of spammers and scareware pushers, who are trying to profit from people searching for info... |
16 March 2010
10:22 GMT |
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Renukanth Subramaniam, the founder of the DarkMarket carding forum, was sentenced to 56 months in prison by a UK court last Friday. Another DarkMarket regular named John McHugh was jailed for two years on similar charges.Renukanth Subramaniam, 33, lived a double life as a pizza delivery man in North London and a noto... |
1 March 2010
09:05 GMT |
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Max Ray Vision, a notorious hacker arrested for stealing the details of millions of credit cards, was sentenced yesterday to 13 years in a federal prison. Mr. Vision's hacking sentence is the longest of its kind ever to be recorded in the United States.Max Ray Vision, 37, of San Francisco, is better known by his... |
13 February 2010
07:15 GMT |
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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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