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Engineer jailed for chip and PIN fraud

An engineer has been jailed for three years for helping criminals clone credit and debit cards, according... Read more

14 October, 2011

Juror jailed for Facebook contact

...contact with an acquitted defendant during an active court case has been jailed for contempt of court. Forty year old Joanna Fraill was sentenced to... Read more

17 June, 2011

UK hacker jailed for 18 months

...who spammed out viruses that targeted hundreds of UK businesses has been jailed for 18 months. Matthew Anderson, a Scottish man who was part of... Read more

23 November, 2010

Chip-and-PIN fraud gang jailed

A gang of four Londoners have been jailed for a Chip-and-PIN fraud operation which netted £725,000. The... Read more

22 June, 2010

Three men jailed over £3m phishing scheme

...Three men have been jailed for luring British and Irish bank customers into a phishing scam that... Read more

11 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Hacker jailed over BPAS abortion service attack

A 27-year-old West Midlands man has been imprisoned for hacking into the systems of the British Pregnancy Advisory... Read more

16 April, 2012

Man jailed for Facebook hack despite 'ethical' claims

A UK man who hacked his way into Facebook's internal systems has been sentenced to eight months behind bars. The... Read more

20 February, 2012

Ex-Ofcom IT head jailed for £500k fraud

A former IT services boss for the telecoms regulatory body Ofcom has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail for... Read more

9 June, 2011

Woman jailed after stealing SIM card from power meter

An Australian woman has reportedly been sentenced to 18 months in prison after stealing a SIM card from a power meter and using it to connect to the internet Read more

6 May, 2011 by Marguerite Reardon

Zeus fraud gang member gets jail sentence

Karina Kostromina has been jailed for two years for her money-laundering part in a global fraud... Read more

4 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Internet freedom: world's strictest regimes

Internet freedom: world's strictest regimes

...includes YouTube, Wikipedia's Arabic version, Amazon and Skype. The regime has jailed bloggers and carries out regular raids of cyber-cafes. Reporters Without Borders... Read more

1 February, 2011 by Staff

Gang members sentenced over Apple and Amazon fraud

...in large volumes. At Southwark Crown Court on Thursday, James Batchelor was jailed for two years, Siobhan Clarke was given an eight-month suspended sentence... Read more

30 March, 2012

Cameron raises extradition treaty in Obama talks

...faces trial in the US on copyright infringement charges, and could be jailed for a maximum of 10 years. O'Dwyer ran TVShack.net, which... Read more

15 March, 2012

Busted: Police unit saves UK £140m in crackdown on digital crime

...include Operation Pagode, which prevented £84m worth of harm. Five defendants were jailed for a total of fifteen and a half years following an investigation... Read more

3 October, 2011 by Steve Ranger

Teenage GhostMarket kingpin sentenced to jail

...traded in hundreds of thousands of stolen credit card details has been jailed for five years. Nicholas Webber, 19, an ex-public schoolboy, was sentenced... Read more

3 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

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