NSA Leaker 'Reality Winner' Gets More Than 5 Years in Prison

A former NSA contractor, who pleaded guilty to leaking a classified report on Russian hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election to an online news outlet last year, has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison. Reality Winner, a 26-year-old Georgia woman who held a top-secret...

Luminosity RAT author pleads guilty to creating & selling hacking tool

By Waqas In February this year, we informed our readers about the unceremonious closure met by the infamous hacking tool Luminosity RAT at the hands of law enforcement authorities from Australia, Europe, and North America. Users could no longer feel threatened by the dangerous RAT, which was also...

21-Year-Old Creator of LuminosityLink Hacking Tool Pleads Guilty

As it was speculated that the author of LuminosityLink RAT was arrested last year, a plea agreement made available to the public today confirmed the news. Back in September last year, Europol's European Cybercrime Centre EC3 and National Crime Agency began the crackdown on the LuminosityLink RAT,...

Reality Winner, N.S.A. Contractor, Sentenced to 5+ Years in Leak Case

A former NSA contractor, Reality L. Winner, has plead guilty on charges of leaking classified information, regarding a report on election meddling by Russian operatives in the 2016 U.S. elections. She was charged with espionage and was sentenced to more than five years in prison and three years o...

Marcus Hutchins (MalwareTech) Gets $30,000 Bail, But Can't Leave United States

Marcus Hutchins, the malware analyst who helped stop global Wannacry menace, has reportedly pleaded not guilty to charges of creating and distributing the infamous Kronos banking malware and is set to release on $30,000 bail on Monday. Hutchins, the 23-year-old who operates under the alias...

Second 'Fappening' Hacker Pleads Guilty; Facing up to 5 years in Prison

A second man has pleaded guilty for his role in 'The Fappening' breach of 2014, in which the Internet was flooded with thousands of photographs of popular celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian, Kate Upton and Kirsten Dunst. Edward Majerczyk 28 of Chicago, Illinois agreed to ple...

Gozi Co-Author Pleads Guilty As Authors Behind Citadel, Dridex Arrested

The author behind one strain of banking malware, Gozi, has plead guilty and is awaiting sentencing while two other men, who allegedly had a hand in developing the banking malware Citadel and Dridex, were recently apprehended. Latvian Deniss Calovskis, 30, acknowledged in a federal court in New Yo...

LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond pleads guilty to Stratfor attack, could face 10 years in prison

A computer hacker linked to the group known as Anonymous and LulzSec pleaded guilty on Tuesday to breaking into Stratfor, a global intelligence company. Hammond, 28, was arrested last March and charged with hacking into the computers of Stratfor. Jeremy Hammond and other members of AntiSec, stole...

Convicted TJX Hacker Regrets Taking 'Easy Way Out' With Plea Deal

MIAMI BEACH–Stephen Watt was involved in a series of attacks on retailers and restaurants that federal prosecutors called the largest identity theft in U.S. history. He wrote the sniffer used by some of his friends to steal millions of credit card numbers. After federal agents raided his apartmen...

Lulzsec hacker Sabu's sentencing postponed again

Remember Hector Xavier Monsegur a.k.a Lulzsec hacker Sabu ? That undercover double agent working for the FBI. Once again Authorities abruptly postponed his sentencing due to his continued cooperation with the feds. All told, he faced a maximum time behind bars of 124 years associated with his...

Lulzsec hacker Sabu's sentencing postponed again

Remember Hector Xavier Monsegur a.k.a Lulzsec hacker Sabu ? That undercover double agent working for the FBI. Once again Authorities abruptly postponed his sentencing due to his continued cooperation with the feds. All told, he faced a maximum time behind bars of 124 years associated with his...

Former LulzSec hacker pleads guilty to Sony case

After last year's big PlayStation Network hack a lot of hacking groups such as Anonymous and LulzSec were intensely publicized. Back in June, a massive hack was conducted on the Sony Pictures Website. The attack led to the theft of details on over 1 million accounts and was linked to the hacker...

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...

Report: TeamP0ison Hacker "TriCk" Pleads Guilty For Hacking Tony Blair's E-mail

TeamP0ison hacker and newly minted 18 year-old Junaid Hussain of Birmingham, England – a.k.a “TriCk” pleaded guilty last week to hacking charges for a string of attacks on some of the U.K.’s leading political figures, including former Prime Minister Tony Blair, according to a published report in...

Facebook Hacker Gets 8 Months in Jail

A 26-year-old Briton was sentenced to eight months for hacking Facebook in 2011. Glenn Mangham was sentenced to jail Feb. 17 by a British Court. According to the Daily Mail, Mangham impersonated a Facebook employee and hacked into three of the company’s servers. He was then able to obtain...

Suspect in "Hackerazzi" Case Says He Will Plead Guilty

A 35 year-old Florida man is facing a lengthy prison term after being arrested in connection with high profile hacks of the Web-based email accounts of more than 50 celebrities, including Hollywood ingenue Scarlett Johansson. According to a copy of the indictment PDF, Christopher Chaney of...

TJX Hacker Claims Uncle Sam Knew

Jailed hacker and data theft mastermind Albert Gonzalez is reportedly seeking to appeal his guilty plea, arguing that he committed his crimes at the behest of the Secret Service, according to a report by Wired. Gonzalez pleaded guilty to charges last year that he and his accomplices had hacked in...

Colorado Springs sent to prison for hacking into TSA computer !

A federal judge Tuesday sentenced a Colorado Springs man to two years in prison for trying to damage a high-security government computer system used to screen airline passengers. Judge David M. Ebel also ordered Douglas James Duchak to pay $60,587 in restitution to the U.S. Transportation Securit...

Dallas Security Guard Pleads Guilty to Hacking

A former security guard has pleaded guilty to charges that he broke into his employer’s computers while working the night shift at a Dallas hospital. Jesse William McGraw pleaded guilty to two counts of transmitting malicious code, said the U.S. Department of Justice DoJ. Read the full article. I...

Banking Phisher Facing 5 Years In Prison

A Romanian national pleaded guilty to a charge related to a phishing operation that sought to defraud customers of banks such as Citibank and Wells Fargo, and of Web sites such as eBay. Read the full article. Computerworld...