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BitTorrent user jailed for movie sharing
News A Hong Kong citizen has been jailed for three months after sharing three Hollywood movies online over the BitTorrent network, according to reports. Chan Nai-ming, 38, was sentenced by the Tuen Mun Magistrates Court on Monday.
[November 7, 2005, 10:50]
UK spammer jailed over £1.6m scam
News A man described as Britain's most prolific spammer was jailed for six years on Wednesday at Peterborough Crown Court. Peter Francis-Macrae of Cambridgeshire was found guilty of fraudulent trading, concealing criminal property, threatening to...
[November 17, 2005, 9:25]
eBay fraudster jailed
News United goods through the online auction site has been jailed and ordered to return £70,000 to his victims. An eBay fraudster who used false identities to sell fake Manchester Simon Edward Hurley from Coulsdon in Surrey was sentenced at Croydon
[October 4, 2005, 17:30]
UK virus writers jailed
News Two UK men were jailed on Friday for their involvement in a plot to write and distribute a computer virus. Harvey was jailed for six months, and Bradley for three months. Earlier this year a US citizen, Raymond Stegerwalt, was jailed for 21 months...
[October 7, 2005, 17:20]
Teenager jailed for Web attacks
News A US teenager has been jailed for five years after launching attacks against online sportswear retailers. Jasmine Singh, who was sentenced last week, pleaded guilty earlier this year to two counts of computer theft after causing DDoS attacks...
[August 17, 2005, 16:55]
Hackers jailed for attacking UK firms
News Three Russian citizens have been jailed for eight years each for extorting money from UK e-commerce companies. The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), which has now replaced the NHTCU, confirmed that the three had been jailed and fined 100,000...
[October 4, 2006, 17:25]
War driver jailed for nine years
News Brian Salcedo of Michigan was jailed for hacking wireless networks of the hardware store and attempting to steal customer credit card details from the company's central database. A 21 year-old man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for...
[December 16, 2004, 11:25]
Former Wonderland Club member jailed again
Talkback also Frederick Paul Stephens was jailed 1 year ago for second offence.he was also a member of the wonderland club.sentenced to 2 years and 10 mnths
[November 19, 2004, 21:14]
Fraudsters jailed after $240m scam
News Two of the perpetrators of the largest ever fraud in Nigerian history have been jailed for a total of 37 years. According to Reuters, Emmanuel Nwude was sentenced to 25 years and Nzeribe Okoli to 12 years for their part in a scam which brought down...
[November 21, 2005, 16:50]
Man jailed for MSN TV hack
Talkback The sentence is far too light. This virus could have literally resulted in someone's death. Until we start punishing authors of virus software and Spy-ware, we will continue to suffer from these attacks.
[March 16, 2005, 17:13]
Man jailed for selling Windows source code
Talkback Market forces confirm how much Microsoft source code is really worth. Only Microsoft were interested!
[January 30, 2006, 10:35]
Ex-Microsoft man jailed for software sales
Talkback Lock'imup and chuckawaythekey! Microsoft may not be everyones' cup of tea but without the rule of law there's nothing!
[November 23, 2005, 5:47]
Teenager jailed for Web attacks
Talkback Sending a 17 year old boy to prison for a non-violent crime is sick. But the USA with 1/4 of the world's prison population is obviously a very sick society, piss-poor in solutions: war and prison are its answer to everything.
[August 18, 2005, 12:27]
Computer technician jailed for eating Web surfer
Talkback Actually, this story shows the great divide between US and Europe. In the European version, the "perpetrator" and the "victim" worked out an agreement. In the US, it would have been done without consent.
[February 9, 2004, 13:15]
Teenager jailed for Web attacks
Talkback Understandable why he acted out - if my mom named me "Jasmine" and I was guy, I'd be acting out, too.
[August 18, 2005, 14:15]
BitTorrent user jailed for movie sharing
Talkback Man, so you can be convicted for distributing absolute crap, no matter how old it is? Sheesh, at least they could have convicted somebody who was sharing good movies.
[November 7, 2005, 12:06]
Autism expert: Nasa hacker should not be jailed
News Gary McKinnon's hack of US military systems should be considered "the activity of someone with a disability", according to professor Simon Baron Cohen, the autism expert who diagnosed McKinnon with Asperger's syndrome, a condition on the autism...
[January 26, 2009, 14:46]
Computer technician jailed for eating Web surfer
Talkback Goes to show that Europe is no better then the US when it comes to crime.
[February 3, 2004, 11:28]
eBay fraudster jailed
Talkback Good work for nicking him, but they're man utd fans - how much sympathy can you have for them
[October 6, 2005, 12:51]
