Hacker holds onto ill-gotten gains thanks to US courts
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The Dorozhko Defense Oleksandr Dorozhko made almost $300,000 in stock-option trading by using insider information that was obtained after someone hacked into the network of a company called IMS Health. Now, the Ukrainian resident is exploiting a loophole that may allow him to keep the ill-gotten gains for good.â¦
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The US Justice Department&#39;s crackdown on cyber crime has brought to light illegal activities, including credit-card fraud, to the tune of over $215 million and resulted in dozens of arrests, a senior official said.
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A Romanian national was indicted on charges of hacking into more than 150 U.S. government computers, causing disruptions that cost NASA, the Energy Department and the Navy nearly $1.5 million.
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An Australian man whose international email scam stripped A$5 million ($5.48 million) from his victims has been jailed in a continuing global war against Nigerian internet frauds.
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A 24-year-old former American Online software engineer has pleaded guilty to stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers, setting off an avalanche of up to seven billion unsolicited e-mails.
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INSPECTOR Hacker of the Yard has fingered the collar of a UK man suspected of stealing source code from Cisco Systems in May. Cyber plods from the Metropolitan Police Computer Crime Unit swooped on houses
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Transmigration of the SQL The path to enlightenment got a little shorter for the citizens of Tucson, Arizona and they have a hacker half-way around the world to thank.â¦
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I was a teenage zombie master A young hacker accused of helping to corral more than 400,000 computers into a money-making botnet has pleaded guilty to criminal charges in connection with the scheme, which he admits damaged US military computers.â¦
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In a strange anomaly to American securities laws, it is not clear that someone who illegally obtained insider information has broken the law by trading on that information.
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Company wins $84,177 over term violation; U.K. individuals, though, are virtually helpless against spammers, lawyer says.
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Three Indians are charged with  hacking into US stock brokerage accounts to boost the value of their shares.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 4 -- A former America Online Inc. software engineer pleaded guilty Friday to stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers.
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US website Monster.com suffers an online attack with the data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen.
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SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale said a junior trader who racked up more than $7 billion in losses misused computer access codes and falsified documents.
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Securities class-action attorney William Lerach, who has been called the most-hated man in the tech business, is set to plead guilty to a count of conspiracy, the Wall Street Journal reports. Hear that sound? It's champagne corks popping all over Silicon Valley.
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Among the more than 150 cybercrime arrests and convictions announced Thursday by the Department of Justice was an original: the nation&#39;s first case alleging denial of service attacks against competitors to knock them offline.
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Three men from India were indicted Monday on federal charges of hacking into online brokerage accounts and pumping up stock values to turn a hefty profit for themselves, the Justice Department said.