June 22, 2020

Hacker indicted for stealing 65K employees’ PII in medical center hack

The Detroit man allegedly bragged about wanting to "play with Peoplesoft" - the HR management software he called "basically HR in a box."

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October 28, 2019

Crypto Capital boss arrested over money laundering

Bitfinex says the payment processor has $880M of the cryptocurrency exchange's “lost” funds. Polish authorities seized $390m of it.

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April 10, 2017

News in brief: Dallas sirens ‘hacked’; Livejournal cracks down; Russian man arrested in Spain

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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March 24, 2017

Man charged with $100m ‘whaling’ attack on two US tech giants

Victims of whaling attack not named, but it's not the first time a big multinational has been targeted, and it won't be the last

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September 30, 2016

Japanese man arrested for selling jailbroken iPhones

He allegedly sold iPhones with a difference - pre-jailbroken and loaded with a popular game hacked to have handy powerups built in...

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September 20, 2016

Robot arrested for allegedly recording voters at a political rally

The Promobot IR77, which had previously been re-programmed twice for mutinous behavior, did not put up any resistance when removed by police.

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December 15, 2015

VTech: 21-year-old man arrested after toy maker hack‏

The hacker told journalists that VTech "should have the book thrown at them" over his break-in, but now the book's being thrown at him.

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October 30, 2015

Second teenager arrested in TalkTalk “breach” – but what was the motive?

A second teenager has been arrested in the UK over the Talk Talk attack - but we still don't know what actually happened.

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September 14, 2015

Founder of collapsed Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox arrested, charged again

Mt. Gox infamously imploded with hundreds of thousands of bitcoins "missing." Finding out what happened is an ongoing exercise...

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