Head of Russian Payment Processor ChronoPay Arrested

Pavel Vrublevsky, the head of a prominent Russian payment-processing company, ChronoPay, was arrested in Russia on suspicion of hiring someone to launch a denial-of-service attack against one of his company’s main competitors. The arrest is the latest in a series of high-profile actions against...

Lulzsec Outs "Snitches" After UK Arrest

The age-old adage that there’s “no honor among thieves” appears to be playing out in the world of hacking, as well, as members of the online hacking group Lulzsec published information identifying two associates they accuse of informing on them to authorities. The outing followed the arrest on...

UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind

UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind British police say they have made a significant arrest in their investigation into hacking attacks on international business and intelligence agencies. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit PCeU have arrested a...

UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind

UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind British police say they have made a significant arrest in their investigation into hacking attacks on international business and intelligence agencies. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit PCeU have arrested a...

3 suspected Sony PlayStation Network hackers arrested in Spain

3 suspected Sony PlayStation Network hackers arrested in Spain Sony has stated that they dont know who the PSN hackers are, but Spanish police seem to think it is a group of local hackers, who the claim to be the Spanish wing of the hacktivist group Anonymous New York Times is reporting that 3...

Hacking Demo On Facebook Photos Leads To Arrest and Privacy Questions

A public demonstration of a weakness in Facebook’s account security has attracted the attention of law enforcement in Australia and raised questions about the ability of social networks to protect user data. Security researcher Christian Heinrich conducted a brute force attack against the Faceboo...

Bangladeshi young man jailed for cyber crime !

Accused youth created a Facebook account in the name of the girl and uploaded nude photos of the victim A Bangladesh court sent a young man charged for cyber crime and cyber bullying to prison on Saturday. Shakil Ahmed, 23, created a Facebook account in the name of his victim and uploaded photos,...

Spanish Police Arrest Alleged Nintendo Hacker !

Spanish police say they've arrested a hacker who threatened to go public with personal information he found in a Nintendo database on about 4,000 of the company's users. Nintendo's Spanish division, Nintendo Ibérica, was approached by the hacker, who was seeking to blackmail the company, Spain's...

Anonymous attacks US security company !

HBGary chief Aaron Barr's Twitter account hijacked and personal details leaked in revenge for infiltration of hacking collective The loose hacker collective Anonymous says it has taken revenge on aUS security company whose principal claimed to have penetrated the group and identified some of its...

Gang stole credit card details of US Citizens !

The cyber abomination badge arrested four youths, who had purchased cottony sarees account over Rs 17 lakh by application baseborn acclaim agenda capacity and agreement orders online. The youths, three of them engineers, had become accompany while alive in a arch alarm centre in the city. While o...

FBI raids on 40 Anonymous hackers !

The FBI would have conducted 40 raids yesterday and seized the computers of members of the loosely organized group of hackers known as Anonymous. Several members have posted their stories in online forums, including images of kicking in doors. The FBI has seized every computer in every house and...

Man Tunnels Into GameStop & Steals Games !

Here In the title i have mentioned that "Man Tunnels" It means that he literally tunneled into the system. Game Piracy is the business all over the world.But there are some guys who don't need to do piracy.They are digging into the system of the local game shop sites and making stocks as much as...

Thurston sees largest identity theft case in the county's history !!

An Olympia-area man has been arrested in what the Thurston County Sheriff's Office says is the largest identity-theft case in the county's history. More than 1,000 victims statewide had their driver's licenses, credit cards and Social Security numbers stolen, according to the Sheriff's Office...

Miley Cyrus email Hacker arrested by FBI !

The guy who allegedly broke into Miley Cyrus' email account two years ago and flooded the Internet with scandalous pics of the underaged pop star was just arrested -- but NOT for hacking Hannah Montana. According to federal court docs, Josh Holly was busted in Nashville last Thursday after FBI...

Xiang Dong ("Mike") Yu (Ford Motor)

Yu was a Product Engineer and ten-year veteran of U.S. automaker Ford Motor Company who admitted to copying around 4,000 confidential Ford documents to an external hard drive and passing them to Beijing Automotive Company with whom he hadtaken a job. The design documents have been valued at aroun...

Robert Hanssen (FBI )

The granddaddy of all moles, Robert Hanssen was a career FBI officer who spent decades spying for the Soviet Union, including the GRU – the Soviet military intelligence unit- and the KGB. Hanssen worked his way up in the FBI and was charged with a variety of jobs related to intelligence gathering...

Romania police Arrest 42 Business VOIP Cyber Crime Hacker !

Police in Romania of late raided a hacking gang that was centered on hijacking Business VoIP information from illegally accessed servers. Police in Romania of late raided a hacking gang that was centered on hijacking Business VoIP information from illegally accessed servers. ThinkBright.net...

WikiLeaks

Many people in the security and privacy communities have been aware of the activities of WikiLeaks for several years now, but in 2010 the group hit the mainstream like a hurricane. First came document dumps that revealed embarrassing details about the way the U.S. has conducted the war in Iraq...

Man Arrested for Hacking Girl's Social Media and Posting Lewd Messages

A 29-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for hacking into a girl's social networking profile, altering her photos, and posting inappropriate messages. The police apprehended Pramod Nana Bavdekar from his home in Andheri, seizing his computer and hard disk as evidence. The incident began on...

Thousands of Social Security Numbers Stolen in New York Data Breach

Thousands of Social Security numbers have been stolen from the computers of a New York state agency. The Social Security Administration in New York City reports that a subcontractor, who was working for the Office of Temporary Disability Assistance on computer infrastructure upgrades, illegally...