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TJX hacker gets 30-year prison sentence
A Ukrainian man, one of the orchestrator's of the monster TJX breach, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in Turkey.
Jan 9 2009 10:48AM
Palin email intruder indicted, faces up to five years in prison
A 20-year-old Tennessee man has been indicted on charges he accessed GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account without permission.
Oct 9 2008 9:44AM
Convicted spammer escapes from prison
Convicted spammer Edward "Eddie" Davidson has escaped from a federal prison camp after serving just five weeks of a 21 month sentence..
Jul 23 2008 4:48PM
Convicted spammer escapes from prison
Convicted spammer Edward "Eddie" Davidson has escaped from a federal prison camp after serving just five weeks of a 21 month sentence.
Jul 23 2008 1:24PM
Systems administrator gets 30 months in prison for 'logic bomb'
A New Jersey man this week was sentenced to more than two years in prison for planting a “logic bomb” on the network of his former employer in a failed attempt to destroy sensitive health care data.
Jan 10 2008 2:26PM
Child porn hacker sentenced to 110 years in prison
A North Carolina man was sentenced to more than a century in prison after he seeded teens' computers with trojans and then demanded the victims provide him with nude photographs of themselves.
Dec 4 2007 10:44AM
Los Angeles botmaster faces 60 years in prison, US$1.75 million fine
A California man is facing a maximum of 60 years in prison and a US$1.75 million fine after agreeing to plead guilty to using botnets to steal PC users' personal and financial information.
Nov 13 2007 9:59AM
Guilty CAN-SPAMMER faces nearly six years in prison
The Southern California man who was the first person convicted under the US CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 for operating a sophisticated "phishing scheme" has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison.
Jun 18 2007 10:25AM
Brooklyn spammer faces 11 years in prison
A New York man pleaded guilty this week to violating the CAN-SPAM Act by sending junk email to about 1.2 million AOL subscribers in a 2005 run.
Jun 14 2007 11:16AM
Man faces prison for 24 piracy
USA - Four hours of video could net three years in prison.
Jun 6 2007 4:05PM
Child porn surfers will go to prison
Top cop vows to jail deliberate paedophile site users.
Jun 4 2007 10:17AM
Prison keys sold on eBay
Quick lock change in order after security slip.
May 4 2007 2:20PM
Pentagon hacker could face 60 years in prison after extradition to US
Gary McKinnon, accused of hacking into Pentagon and NASA networks, has lost his fight against extradition to the United States in front of the British High Court.
Apr 4 2007 10:29AM
US Judge sentenced to prison for child porn
A former judge was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison on Tuesday for possession of child pornography that was initially found by a Canadian hacker vigilante who tipped off authorities six years ago.
Feb 22 2007 10:32PM
Singapore man faces 180 years in prison
A Singaporean hacker has been charged with posting a fake July 2005 bomb threat on a technology website and 60 counts of illegally accessing a wireless network.
Jan 9 2007 5:57PM
Denial of service attackers face 10 years in prison
Denial-of-service attackers in the UK now face up to ten years in prison under the new Police and Justice Act 2006, which came into force last week.
Nov 13 2006 11:50AM
Trojan-creating couple gets prison time
An Israeli couple that created a trojan that helped Israeli companies spy on each other were sentenced to prison today, several media outlets reported.
Mar 27 2006 11:17PM
Paris Hilton hacker gets prison punishment
A Massachusetts teen has pleaded guilty to hacking into Paris Hilton's Sidekick cell phone.
Sep 16 2005 4:25PM
Fraudster faces prison sentence
Jan 14 2005 5:01PM
