A former portfolio manager at the now defunct Diamondback Capital Management has been sentenced to 54 months in prison for crimes related to a multimillion dollar insider trading scheme involving computer maker Dell and hardware maker ...
Cody Andrew Kretsinger, a 25-year-old man from Decatur, Ill., was sentenced Thursday to one year in federal prison for his role in a May 2011 breach of a Sony Pictures website and database. At the time of the intrusion Kretsinger, who ...
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The former chief scientist at a Kentucky defense contractor has been sentenced to a year in prison for buying pirated software from Russian and Chinese hackers and using it to design components for military helicopters. Wronald Best, 55, ...
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A receptionist at a GP surgery has been prosecuted for illegally accessing sensitive medical information relating to her ex-husband's new wife. Appearing at West Hampshire Magistrates on Monday (14 March) Marcia Phillips was prosecuted ...
A 22-year-old Dutch man who sold credit card details online was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in a U.S. prison in a fraud case that prosecutors alleged caused more than $63 million in damages, according to the Department of Justice. ...
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A disgruntled employee, angry at missing out on a pay rise, conducted a three-year campaign of sabotage against his company's computers by spraying the cleaning product Cillit Bang into the grills of the servers. Credit controller Edward ...
Allstate Insurance Co. has filed an application for garnishment in the United States District Court in and for the Western District of Washington in the amount of $726,700.53 against Auto Glass Express Inc., Premier Auto Glass LLC, owner ...
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A former co-owner of a U.S. civilian contractor company was sentenced on Thursday in San Antonio to serve 30 months in prison for falsifying official documents in connection with Iraq reconstruction government contracts, announced Assistant ...
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Two Romanian men have pleaded guilty to participating in a $10 million scheme to hack into the computers of hundreds of Subway restaurants in the U.S. and steal payment card data, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Iulian Dolan, 28, of ...
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A former Motorola employee, charged with the theft of trade secrets from the company, was sentenced by a federal court in Illinois on Wednesday to four years in federal prison, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Hanjuan Jin, 41, a ...
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A 22-year-old U.K. man was convicted for his involvement in a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks launched by the hacktivist group Anonymous against PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and other companies in 2010. Christopher ...
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For the fourth Christmas Eve since her son's murder, Julia Hudson, along with her sister, singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tried to create something positive out of her family's tragedy. The Hudson sisters and volunteers gave Christmas ...
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The Court of Cassation reversed a Cairo Criminal Court ruling sentencing three former regime officials to prison in the steel licenses case and ordered that they be retried before new judges. Mr Ahmed Ezz, former organization secretary ...
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The Fourth Amendment protects Americans from unlawful searches and seizures. Among other things, this means that if law enforcement suspects someone of a crime, they need a probable-cause warrant before they can search a person's home, car ...
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The last member of a US cybercrime trio that netted up to $3m in a Wi-Fi and malware hacking spree has been sentenced. Joshuah Allen Witt, 35, John Earl Griffin, 36, and Brad Eugene Lowe, 39, have all now been given stiff prison terms. ...
Tags: Hacker, Hacking Spree, Computer Products