British Man Indicted for Hacking U.S. Governement

The United States District Court in New Jersey is accusing British citizen Lauri Love, and others not named, of conspiring to and illegally accessing various government and military networks. The purpose of these attacks, prosecutors said, was to steal vast stores of personally identifiable and...

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,...

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,...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not leave Ecuadorian Embassy in London

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will not leave the Ecuadorian Embassy after Ecuador's foreign minister has said its embassy in London will continue to provide political asylum to Julian Assange. He was staying in embassy for the past year to avoid extradition to Sweden. The Australian wi...

Liberty Reserve Domains Seized, Money Laundering Charged

Federal law enforcement officials in the United States seized domains belonging to the Costa Rican-based Liberty Reserve, a payment processor, money transfer service, and digital currency exchange reportedly used by criminals as a means for laundering money. Liberty Reserve was also the subject o...

ATM Heists Net $45 Million and Indictments

Eight members of a New York cybercrime cell have been indicted in a carefully coordinated heist that drained $45 million from thousands of ATMs in less than 24 hours. In an federal indictment unsealed Thursday in Brooklyn, authorities charge the attacks were reminiscent of a suspense movie in whi...

Reuters Editor Indicted for Allegedly Helping Hackers Break Into Tribune Co.

UPDATE — One of Matthew Keys’ lawyers told The Huffington Post on Friday that his client was working as an “undercover” journalist when he engaged members of Anonymous in an IRC channel offering login credentials for Tribune Co. servers. Keys, 26, of Secaucas, N.J., was suspended with pay from...

Hacker group RedHack faces up to 24 years in prison for terrorist crimes

As part of an investigation launched by Başsavcıvekilliği in Ankara on March 20 arrested seven people, including college students. 13 of the indictment prepared by the prosecutor's office in Ankara Was adopted by the High Criminal Court. Court has accepted an indictment against RedHack, a Turkish...

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...

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...

Alleged Russian Cybercriminal Extradited to U.S.

Vladimir Zdorovenin, an alleged prolific Russian cybercriminal, has arrived in New York City following his arrest and subsequent extradition by Swiss authorities. The FBI had been working to find and extradite Zdorovenin for several years. Originally indicted under seal in May 2007, the 54-year-o...

Romanian Men Indicting For Hacking 150 Subway Restaurants

Four Romanian nationals were charged with hacking into the credit card processing systems of some 150 Subway sandwich shops and those of 50 other unnamed retailers, according to a copy of the indictment PDF. The four men and two co-conspirators, identified by their online pseudonyms,...

Indictment Names Reddit Luminary In Theft of Data from MIT

A 24 year-old entrepreneur and star programmer has been indicted by the federal authorities in Boston following and accused of hacking into the network of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and making off with millions of pages of copyrighted documents. Aaron Swartz, who is best known as a...

FBI busts $465,000 credit card scam !

Federal investigators arrested and indicted a former Bridgeport resident who they say orchestrated a scam in which foreign nationals applied for and received credit cards on which they charged up to $465,000 worth of goods before leaving the country with the banks holding the tab. A federal grand...

Jose Ignacio Lopez (GM)

Lopez was the head of General Motors’ Global Purchasing division when he defected for GM competitor VW to head that company’s purchasing operation in 1993. According to a lawsuit filed by GM, Lopez and other company executives brought with them more than two million pages of top-secret GM...

Former UCM Students Charged with Hacking and Data Theft

Two former University of Central Missouri students have been charged with hacking university databases, stealing confidential information, and attempting to sell it for profit. Joseph Camp and Daniel Fowler were indicted by a federal grand jury. They allegedly created a computer virus and spread ...

Feds Indict 5 in Carson, CA Crimes

Five people were indicted this week on wire fraud and other criminal charges stemming from a 2007 cybertheft in which nearly $450,000 was stolen from the bank accounts of the city of Carson, California using credential-stealing spyware. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Feds Nab 4 From 19-Person Indictment in Mexico

Four people from North Texas indicted last week by a federal grand jury in Dallas were arrested Friday morning in Cancun, Mexico, according to the FBI. Michael Faulkner, 36, and his wife, Chastity Faulkner, 34, both of Southlake, were central figures in the 19-person indictment brought by U.S...

FBI Indicts 19 Texans For Cybercrime Fraud

A federal grand jury in Dallas returned a superseding indictment this week charging 19 defendants in a massive cybercrime conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Read the statement. FBI...