Kryogeniks Indicted for Comcast Hack

Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers. Prosecutors identified Christopher Allen Lewis, 19, and James Robert Black Jr., 20, as the hackers “EBK” and “Defiant,...

Ex Ford Engineer Arrested for Alleged Theft of Trade Secrets

A former Ford Motor Company engineer has been indicted on charges of theft of trade secrets, attempted theft of trade secrets and unauthorized access to protected computers. Xiang Dong Yu, also known as Mike Yu, was arrested last week as he entered the country at Chicago O’Hare International...

Heartland, TJX Attacks Look Sadly Familiar

The news that federal authorities have indicted the man they claim is responsible for the TJX attack for also allegedly hacking into the networks of Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven and the Hannaford Brothers grocery chain shows that law enforcement is indeed stepping up its work on cybercrime...

Three Indicted For Hack Attacks on Heartland, Hannaford

A Miami man and two Russians have been indicted usdoj.gov by a grand jury in New Jersey on charges of conspiring to commit some of the largest data breaches in U.S. history. Albert Gonzalez, 28, and the two still-unnamed Russian citizens are charged with running an international scheme to steal...

Indictments fall on Swede for Cisco, NASA attacks

From Wired.com David Kravets A Swedish man has been indicted for attacks against NASA’s Ames Research Center and Cisco several years ago that netted the source code to Cisco’s IOS operating system, among other spoils. Wired’s Threat Level is reporting that Phillip Gabriel Pettersson was indicted...