Two Japanese Men Sentenced for Data Theft
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Two men were given suspended jail sentences Friday for stealing personal data on subscribers to Japanese broadband services provider Softbank Corp. in an effort to extort money from the company.
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A fairy story ended behind bars for a Japanese couple on Monday, when they were jailed for staging an elaborate fake royal wedding to defraud guests.
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The activist fund manager Yoshiaki Murakami, who shook up corporate Japan with demands for greater shareholder returns, was sentenced to two years in jail for insider trading during a controversial takeover battle. The conviction was for trading in shares during a bid for a television broadcaster made by the scandal-ridden Internet company Livedoor. Regulators have been cracking down on corporate wrongdoing after an accounting fraud at Livedoor that led to a sell-off on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Mr. Murakami was also fined 1.2 billion yen ($10 million). He quickly appealed the ruling, and Japanese news media said he had been released on bail.
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Two men accused of putting copied computer programmes on the internet saw themselves as "latter-day Robin Hoods", a court hears.
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Government admits disc containing details of suspected foreign criminals was mislaid for a year
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One was held on suspicion of leaking  state secrets to foreigners. Another was accused of corruption,  detained for five months and then released without charge.
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p2pnet.net News:- A man accused of using Japan&#39;s Winny p2p file sharing application to release movies online has received a suspended sentence in Japan.
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Two former Coca-Cola employees were sentenced Wednesday to serve prison terms for conspiring to steal and sell trade secrets to rival Pepsi.
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John Bombard faces up to two years in prison for distributed denial-of-service attack.
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Two men were convicted in Arizona on charges of money laundering and transportation of obscene materials, in connection with running a pornographic spamming business.
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Newspaper report says People's Liberation Army broke into computers and stole files.
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Two men behind a spam ring that sent millions of pornographic mails are the first to be convicted under new federal spam laws, the Justice Department said.
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Two computer engineers in the US are charged with conspiring to steal microchip designs.
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Two men pleaded guilty to federal charges in what authorities said were the first convictions for online file-sharing of music, movies and software over peer-to-peer networks.
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The noose appears to be tightening around one of Europe's largest software counterfeiting rings as a German court sentenced a second member of the network to prison on Monday, and handed a sentence to his father for helping run front operations.
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A US man who hacked into mobile firm T-Mobile's computer system is sentenced.
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The leader of one of an Internet software piracy group was sentenced to prison for conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement.