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Phone Maker BLU Settles with FTC Over Unauthorized User Data Extraction
Android phone-maker BLU Products agreed to a proposed settlement on Tuesday with the Federal Trade Commission, over allegations it allowed the third-party firm Adups Technology to collect detailed consumer data from users without their consent. In an administrative complaint filed earlier this we...
Former Cardinals Scout Christopher Correa Sentenced Four Years for Houston Astros Hack
The Federal Court came down hard on a former scouting director for the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday, sentencing Christopher Correa to almost four years in prison for hacking into a computer system that belongs to the Houston Astros. Correa, who until last summer served as Director of Baseball...
LulzSec hacker sentenced to 1 year jail & ordered to pay $605,663 in restitution
A second member of hacking group LulzSec - Raynaldo Rivera, 21, of Tempe, Arizona, has been sentenced to 1 year in prison, 13 months of house arrest, and 1,000 hours of community service for hacking into the computers of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Raynaldo who went by Internet names ”neuron” wa...
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...
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...
A Russian Zeus attacker Sentenced from Million Dollar Fraud
A Russian Zeus attacker Sentenced from Million Dollar Fraud A Russian Hacker, who was part of an elaborate Cyber attack that used Zeus Banking Trojan in U.S. visas to move cash stolen from U.S. businesses out of the country was sentenced on March 23 to two years in U.S. federal prison. Nikokay...
BlueCross BlueShield to Pay $1.5m for HIPAA Violation
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee agreed to pony up $1.5 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS for a HIPAA violation in 2009, according to a ComputerWorld report. This payment is the settlement of a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...
14 Years in Jail for mass credit card theft
14 Years in Jail for mass credit card theft A 21 year old man received a 14 year prison sentenced on Friday for running an online business that sold counterfeit credit cards encoded with stolen account information with losses estimated at more than $3 million. Tony Perez III, of Hammond, Indiana,...
Bank of America Employee Sentenced Following ATM Scam
A former Bank of America employee was sentenced to twenty seven months in prison after installing software on the bank’s computers that allowed him to steal thousands of dollars from ATMs, according to an Associated Press report. Rodney Reed Caverly of Mint Hill, N.C. was ordered to pay $419,310....
Hacker pleads after busted with 675K stolen cards
A Georgia man has pleaded guilty to fraud and identity theft after authorities found him in possession of more than 675,000 credit card numbers, some of which he obtained by hacking into business networks Rogelio Hackett Jr., 26, pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count each of access device fraud...
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...
Kentucky Resident Charged and Sentenced for Hacking !
HOPKINS COUNTY, KY – As technology advances by leaps and bounds on a daily basis, a Kentucky man has utilized his extensive computer skills to gain money, but ended up gaining three years of probation with the initial 300 days spent in a work release center. Walter Puckett, a 40 year old...