Indicted: Romanian hacked U.S. computers
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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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US businessman allegedly rubbed out rivals' websites
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DOJ announces arrests, convictions for online fraud and other Net-related crimes.
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InfoWorld - IT systems integrator Unisys is under fire for allegedly failing to detect the hacking of U.S. Department of Homeland Security computers, an incident that resulted in data being sent to a Chinese-language Web site.
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(InfoWorld) - Six men have been charged with orchestrating a phishing scheme that targeted AOL users, the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday. The men are accused of harvesting thousands of AOL e-mail addresses and then infecting victims' PCs with malicious software that would prevent them from logging on to AOL without entering their credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and other personal information. Under the scam, victims would receive fake e-mail greeting cards that would silently infect their computers with the log-on software, according to a grand jury indictment. Victims were also spammed with phoney e-mail messages that claimed to have come from AOL's billing department. "Due to a central server meltdown, your credit card information was lost," one such e-mail read, according to the indictment. "In order to enjoy your AOL experience and keep your account active, you must enter your credit card information within 24 hours." Some of the fake greeting cards claimed to come from Web sites such as Hallmark.com or BlueMountain.com, the indictment states. AOL users appear to have been the primary targets of the fraud, but others may also have been targeted, according to Tom Carson, a spokesman for the United States Attorney's office for the District of Connecticut. "The investigation is ongoing," he said. "I think we can say the bulk of those targeted were AOL users, but we can't say with 100 percent certainty that they were the only victims," he said. The accused are believed to have defrauded thousands of individuals, U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Connor said in a statement. "These are insidious crimes that wreak havoc on the lives of victims, and we will seek strict terms of imprisonment." The alleged scam was conducted over a two-year period, beginning in 2004, the U.S. Attorney said. Proceeds from the crime were used to purchase gaming consoles, laptop computers and gift cards, the indictment states. The men were actually indicted on fraud charges last week by a federal grand jury in New Haven, but the charges were not made public until Wednesday, when three of the men pleaded guilty. The three who have pleaded guilty face between two years and nine and a half years in prison, Carson said. They are Charlie Blount Jr., 22, of Branford, Connecticut, Richard D'Andrea, 22, of West Haven, Connecticut, and Thomas Taylor Jr., 20, also of West Haven. They are scheduled to be sentenced in mid-December. The three men awaiting arraignment are Michael Dolan, 22, of North Miami Beach, Florida, Keith Riedel, 20, of Winter Haven, Florida, and Daniel Mascia, 22, of West Haven. Dolan had previously been sentenced to two years of probation after pleading guilty to accessing a protected computer without authorization.
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The self-proclaimed leader of the Aryan Nation in Nevada has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly sending threatening e-mails to newspapers in Reno and San Francisco.
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Two Texas men have been charged with securities fraud for hijacking millions of computers in order to route spam through them. Darrel and Jack Uselton are, apparently, repeat offenders.
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Gary McKinnon, the Briton faced with extradition to the U.S., is charged with hacking into U.S. military systems.
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Two men accused of aiding a Romanian man charged with hacking into the online ordering system of the world's largest computer equipment distributor pleaded not guilty to charges of mail fraud and conspiracy to ...
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A former University of Texas student was indicted on charges he hacked into the school's computer system and stole Social Security numbers and other personal information from more than 37,000 students and employees.
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An American citizen specializing in the Internet was arrested by the Belarus KGB for allegedly mishandling funds, Belarus authorities reported on Monday.
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WASHINGTON Sanjay Kumar, a former chief executive of Computer Associates International, and another former executive were indicted Wednesday in what US prosecutors called a &quot;massive fraud&quot; that inflated the company&#39;s sales by $2.
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A federal grand jury has indicted 11 people for conspiring to distribute nearly $31 million worth of bootlegged software programs.
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Prosecutors have charged 11 people in California, Texas and Washington state with conspiring to distribute more than &#36;30 million of counterfeit computer software and products.
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A naturalized U.S. citizen from Iran who was found in Iraq was indicted Friday on charges of providing support to a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the Iranian regime, federal prosecutors said.
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FEDERAL authorities have indicted 19 people in the United States and abroad on charges related to a website investigators claimed was one of the largest online centers for trafficking in stolen identity information and credit cards.
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A Seattle man has been indicted on charges that he used P2P networks to sniff around other users' computers for personal financial information he could use to steal identities and make fraudulent purchases.