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Three indicted in largest-ever US hacking prosecution
News The indictment names 28-year-old Albert Gonzalez of Miami, who has already been charged with stealing data related to 40 million credit cards from eight major retailers, including TJ Maxx (known in the UK as TK Maxx), and two unnamed co...
[August 18, 2009, 9:17]
Ex-IT worker charged with sabotage
News A two-count indictment charged 60-year-old Roger Duronio with being behind the more than $3m (about £2m) in damage caused when malicious programs placed on some 1,000 of UBS PaineWebber's nearly 1,500 computers became active on 4 March and deleted...
[December 19, 2002, 8:08]
Webmaster accused of running 'terrorist' sites
News The arrest of Syed Talha Ahsan on Wednesday came at the request of the US Government, which released a 14-page indictment accusing him of selling books, videotapes, audio cassettes and CD-Roms that glorified "violent jihad in Chechnya, Bosnia...
[July 21, 2006, 8:55]
IT worker arrested over hacking plot
News FBI agents arrested Yung-Hsun "Andy" Lin, 50, at his Montville, New Jersey home on Tuesday morning, one day after a grand jury returned a two-count indictment against him. The indictment accuses Lin of planting a "logic bomb" sometime around...
[December 20, 2006, 7:59]
Pair indicted in trade-secret theft
News Fei Ye and Ming Zhong face 10 counts of trade-secret theft and economic espionage related to possessing stolen internal company documents from Sun, Transmeta, NEC Electronics and Trident, according to an indictment filed in the US.
[December 5, 2002, 15:44]
Spammer hit with criminal charges
News A 31-page indictment released on Wednesday says that Levine, who ran Snipermail.com, and one or more conspirators accessed an Acxiom server used for file transfers and downloaded an encrypted password file called ftpsam.txt in early 2003.
[July 22, 2004, 8:45]
T-Mobile: We were hacked
News A grand jury indictment charges Jacobsen with two counts of violating the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, but does not name the victim. While the mobile phone service claimed to have locked out the intruder in late 2003, the indictment states that...
[January 13, 2005, 8:15]
British man to be extradited for US military hacks
News Representatives from US Navy would not comment on the indictment. The second indictment charged McKinnon with breaking into systems belonging to the US Army, US Navy, the US Air Force, the US Department of Defense and NASA, as well as six corporate...
[November 13, 2002, 9:10]
Five Israelis charged over Goner
News According to the indictment, one of the defendants wrote a virus targeting users of chat rooms; however, the virus failed to cause the intended damage and the defendant, therefore, wrote a new one, based on the code of the Melissa virus, which...
[August 6, 2002, 12:45]
'Operation Buccaneer' nabs suspected pirate ringleader
News According to the indictment, he oversaw the illegal operations of DrinkorDie, which was founded in Russia in 1993 and largely dismantled by federal authorities in 2001. Griffiths' indictment was a result on an ongoing investigation of online piracy...
[March 13, 2003, 8:27]
International crackdown nets ID theft ring
News A grand jury indictment delivered on Thursday in New Jersey found that 19 members of an online site, Shadowcrew.com, traded tutorials and information about identity theft and forgery and exchanged sensitive personal and financial information.
[October 29, 2004, 8:54]
Exclusive: Mitnick To Plead Guilty
News The 25-count federal indictment issued against Mitnick accuses him of using computers to steal millions of dollars in software, and tens of thousands of credit card numbers. Following the September 1996 indictment, Mitnick pleaded "not guilty" to...
[March 18, 1999, 9:13]
US charges Brazilian with operating botnet
News A federal grand jury in New Orleans handed down an indictment charging Leni de Abreu Neto, a 35-year-old from Taubate, Brazil, with one count of conspiracy to cause damage to computers worldwide. The indictment alleges that Neto conspired with...
[August 22, 2008, 8:17]
Security firm charged with computer crimes
News On Monday, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California unsealed a January 2003 grand jury indictment, charging the president of Forensic Tec, Brett Edward O'Keefe, with conspiracy and five violations of computer-crime statutes.
[October 1, 2003, 8:35]
Police lack resources for paedophile hunts
Talkback It is a damming indictment on the government when they will not give the police the vital resources they need to stop paedophiles from gaining access to children in this country. Re- the lack of resources for police to tackle paedophiles.
[February 18, 2005, 17:12]
CDWow.com settlement means dearer CDs
Talkback I think this is a disgraceful infringement of free trade and an indictment of the music industry trying to cream off as much profit as it can from the public.it is not that these are counterfit. With the increase in prices I will not be buying as...
[January 23, 2004, 13:26]
Survey: European patents have quality problems
Talkback It is also an indictment of the system whereby the EPO makes its "profit" by the number of patents granted. There becomes management incentive to promote those who grant the most patents and a positive inducement, for professional progression, to...
[July 10, 2004, 0:00]
Re: Only punishment can really stop theft
Talkback (Paragraphs 1 & 2) What a sad indictment on society as a whole. Is there no hope for us? Paragraphs 3 & 4) Your comments somewhat reinforce what I was saying. I remember a time when one could just walk onto a plane without all the security checks...
[October 20, 2009, 22:57]
Conspirarcy theory? really?
Talkback Finacial damage is a legal requirement before an indictment can be made and the threshold is $5000. "First he didn't steal passwords there were none.there was no security.no pass words.no firewalls on thousands of computers on the networks.
[July 27, 2009, 15:00]
Of course he denied it...
Talkback I would deny it to, as it stands "Under the US indictment, Mr McKinnon is charged with hacking into Army computers in nearly 20 military and six Nasa facilities, installing software, deleting thousands of files and copying account information.
[July 27, 2009, 0:32]
