3 Nigerian Scammers Get 235-Years of Total Jail Sentence in U.S.

You may have heard of hilarious Nigerian scams. My all time favourite is this one: A Nigerian astronaut has been trapped in space for the past 25 years and needs $3 million to get back to Earth, Can you help? Moreover, Nigerians are also good at promising true love and happiness. But You know, Lo...

Student Faces 10 Years In Prison For Creating And Selling Limitless Keylogger

A 21-year-old former Langley High School student, who won a Programmer of the Year Award in high school, pleaded guilty on Friday to charges of developing and selling custom key-logging malware that infected thousands of victims. Zachary Shames from Virginia pleaded guilty in a federal district...

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...

Hacker charged for funding terrorist groups

A hacker 'Cahya Fitrianta' sentenced to eight years in prison by the West Jakarta District Court judges for hacking into many economic websites to steal money and funding that money to terrorist groups. He is also ordered to pay a Rp 500 million $51,000 fine. He is charged with breaking into many...

Hacker charged for funding terrorist groups

A hacker 'Cahya Fitrianta' sentenced to eight years in prison by the West Jakarta District Court judges for hacking into many economic websites to steal money and funding that money to terrorist groups. He is also ordered to pay a Rp 500 million $51,000 fine. He is charged with breaking into many...

Dutch Hacker Sentenced for selling 100,000 credit cards

A Dutch hacker was sentenced to 12 years in a US prison on Friday for trafficking over 100,000 credit card numbers stolen in a computer hacking conspiracy. David Benjamin Schrooten, 22, known as “Fortezza” in the hacker world, pleaded guilty in November to criminal charges related to hacking, ban...

Hong Kong stock exchange Hacker sentenced for 9 Months Jail

Tse Man- lai, 28-year-old businessman, owner of an information technology company, launched denial-of-service DoS attacks on Hong Kong stock exchange last year on August 12 and 13 , was sentenced to nine months in jail on Friday. According to SCMP, Tse Man- lai, who had pleaded not guilty to two...

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...

SF Network Admin Terry Childs Gets 4 Years

A city of San Francisco network administrator who refused to hand over administrative passwords to the city’s network was sentenced to four years in state prison Friday. Read the full article. IDG News Service...

DBA Gets 1-Year Sentence for Hacking Employer

A former senior database administrator for GEXA Energy in Houston was sentenced to 12 months in prison for hacking into his former employer’s computer network. Read the full article. Help Net Security...

Utah IT Contractor Gets 5-Year Sentence for Theft

Zeldon Morris, a Provo, Utah computer contractor, was sentenced on Wednesday to more than five years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing close to $2 million from four credit unions that he performed IT services for. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Darkmarket Founder Gets 56 Months in Jail

Renukanth Subramaniam, 33, who had previously plead guilty was sentenced to 46 months for conspiracy to defraud and 10 months for five counts of mortgage fraud, the terms to run consecutively. Also sentenced was Darkmarket user John McHugh, 66, who had the sign in “Devilman” and created fake cred...

Online Banking Criminals Sentenced in UK

U.K. police are hailing the sentencing of four people who used a sophisticated Trojan horse program to siphon money out of online bank accounts. The men used a Trojan horse program called PSP2-BBB that executed a so-called man-in-the-browser attack when potential victims logged into online bank...