British Baptist Minister's son charged with hacking US Army and Nasa Computer Systems

Son of a Baptist Minister, 28-year-old British man named Lauri Love has been charged with hacking into the computer systems of the US army, NASA and other federal agencies. He was arrested Friday at his home in Stradishall, England by the National Crime Agency and according to the indictment...

13 Anonymous Members indicted and accused of participating in 'Operation Payback'

A U.S. Grand jury indicted and accused 13 members of the hacking group Anonymous for allegedly participating in the cyber attacks against a number of websites as an anti-copyright campaign called "Operation Payback" Hackers took down the sites by inflicting a denial of service, or DDoS, attack,...

Russian Hackers charged for stealing 160 million Credit Cards

A Group of Hackers, Four Russians and a Ukrainian allegedly broke computer networks of more than a dozen major American and international corporations and stole 160 million credit card numbers over the course of seven years, the largest data theft case ever prosecuted in the U.S. They are accused...

Hacking Ring Steals $300 Million, 160 Million Card Numbers

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of New Jersey is expected to further discuss charges today against five hackers who allegedly stole at least 160 million credit and debit card numbers and netted more than $300 million over the course of seven years in what could be the largest cybercrim...

Three LulzSec hackers pleads guilty To NHS, Sony Attacks

Three members of the high profile internet hacktivist group LulzSec have admitted to their parts in a series of cyber attacks against the NHS, Sony and News International. Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis and Mustafa Al-Bassam, pleaded guilty to one charge of carrying out an unauthorized act to impair th...

Reuters Editor Indicted for Helping Hackers Break Into Tribune Co.

A Reuters social media editor on Thursday was charged with helping hackers break into the Tribune Co.’s network shortly after he was fired from a Sacramento television station in Fall 2010. A U.S. Eastern District grand jury in Sacramento handed down a three-count indictment against Matthew Keys,...

Dutch Hacker Sentenced for selling 100,000 credit cards

A Dutch hacker was sentenced to 12 years in a US prison on Friday for trafficking over 100,000 credit card numbers stolen in a computer hacking conspiracy. David Benjamin Schrooten, 22, known as “Fortezza” in the hacker world, pleaded guilty in November to criminal charges related to hacking, ban...

Man Convicted of Illegally Accessing AT&T Servers by 'Impersonating' an iPad

A 27-year-old New York man known online as “Weev” was convicted Tuesday of “impersonating” an iPad in order to gain access to AT&T’s servers and swiping 114,000 email addresses, including some belonging to celebrities. Andrew Auernheimer faces up to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of...

Student hacked into school's computer to obtain a girl's details

Matthew Higgins, now 20 and a university student, hacked into his school computer system to obtain a girl's details and then boasted on a hackers' forum. Matthew is son of a police inspector. Caernarfon Crown Court heard it was the case of a clever young man caught red-handed. The defendant says...

Barrett Brown charged with Internet threats, retaliation, conspiracy charges

A Dallas man linked to the worldwide hacking group Anonymous is accused of threatening to ruin an FBI agent's life in online postings. Barrett Lancaster Brown, 31, of Dallas, was indicted on one count of making an Internet threat, one count of conspiring to make restricted personal information of...

Romanian POS Hackers Plead Guilty, Net $10 M from Scam

Two Romanian men pled guilty this week to charges they hacked into the point of sale systems of more than 200 restaurants, compromising the payment cards of 146,000 customers and amassing more than $10 million over the last few years. Included in those 200 stores were more than 150 Subway sandwic...

Two Members of LulzSec Plead Guilty to Cyber Crimes

Two members of the hacker group Lulz Security LulzSec pleaded guilty today to taking part in a cyber crime spree that launched attacks against Web sites belonging to law enforcement, corporations and media companies. Ryan Cleary, 20, of Wickford, Essex and Jake Davis, 19, of Lerwick, Shetland...

Hacker charged for hacking into U.S. Energy Department

Hacker charged for hacking into U.S. Energy Department Andrew James Miller, a 23-year-old resident of Devon, Pennsylvania, was arrested on Thursday and charged with one count of conspiracy, two counts of computer fraud, and one count of access device fraud, according to a statement issued by the...

Pennsylvania Man Indicted For Hack of Department of Energy Network

A Pennsylvania man was arrested yesterday after a Massachusetts grand jury issued a four-count indictment alleging that he hacked into computer networks belonging to the U.S. Department of Energy DoE and the University of Massachusetts and tried to sell access to a DoE supercomputer for $50,000 t...

LulzSec Affiliate, Ryan Cleary, Indicted in U.S.

Ryan Cleary, the 20 year-old Essex, England hacker associated with the hacker collective LulzSec, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the United States on Tuesday. According to an FBI press release, the grand jury indicted Cleary with one count of conspiracy and two counts of the unauthorized...

New Jersey mayor arrested for hacking recall website

New Jersey mayor arrested for hacking recall website The FBI last week arrested the mayor of the northern New Jersey town of West New York, together with his son, on charges of hacking into a website and a related email account that called for the mayor's recall. Felix Roque, 55, the mayor of Wes...

LulzSec hacker pleads guilty in Sony breach

LulzSec hacker pleads guilty in Sony breach Accused LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger pleaded guilty today in a federal court in Los Angeles, California, to felony charges associated with the breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment that occurred in mid-2011. The hacker had previously pleaded not...

Anonymous Takedown several Vatican Websites

Anonymous Takedown several Vatican Websites The Italian Anonymous Hackers took down the Vatican's website Vatican.va on Wednesday in retaliation for the "corruption" of the Roman Catholic Church. On an Italian-language website Anonymous accused the Catholic Church of being responsible for various...

Anonymous Changes DDoS Tactics in Megaupload Retaliation

Anonymous’ army of hacktivists have changed tactics in what some are calling an attempt to trick people into participating in distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. A round of DDoS attacks Thursday were launched in retaliation for the federal crackdown on Megaupload, a popular file-sharing...

U.S. Shuts Down Megaupload File-Sharing Site, Anonymous Retaliates With DDoS Attacks

A day after the Internet was abuzz with protests of the proposed SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills, the Department of Justice took a major action against many of the top executives of Megaupload, a popular file-sharing site that the government says was the basis for an “international organized...