March 23, 2020

Tour guide/Chinese spy gets four years for SD card dead drops

The dead drops were very James Bond: once, the data mule taped the SD card to the underside of a desk in a hotel.

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January 14, 2020

Lottery hacker gets 9 months for his £5 cut of the loot

We don't care how little you made from your crimes, the judge said. We care that you went after an outfit that gives a ton to charities.

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October 03, 2018

NSA staffer takes top-secret hacking tools home ‘to study’, gets 66 months

Nghia Hoang Pho may not have had malicious intent, but removal of the materials forced the NSA to abandon years of signals collection work.

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April 25, 2017

Russian ‘pioneer’ of identity theft and card fraud jailed for 27 years

Roman Seleznev, the son of a Russian MP, has received the longest ever sentence for hacking to be handed down in the US

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July 20, 2016

Baseball scouting exec gets 46 months for guessing rival team’s password

Chris Correa, ex-scouting director for the Cardinals, was sentenced for breaching the Astros' internal database and email.

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June 16, 2016

Facebook “Spam King” gets 2.5 years in the slammer

Sanford Wallace was also fined $310,628 for sending over 27 million spams and ripping off half a million Facebook account logins.

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April 15, 2016

Matthew Keys gets 2 years for helping Anonymous deface the LA Times

He was found guilty of handing over login credentials for the newspaper, after which it was defaced.

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March 15, 2016

Feds ask for 5 years jail for journalist who handed over newspaper login

Matthew Keys was convicted of handing over login credentials for a website and then telling Anonymous to “go f**k some s**t up.”

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September 16, 2015

I must not tweet defamatory comments… I must not tweet defamatory comments… I must not…

In an unusual civil case a Spanish judge has ordered a libellous tweeter to post the details of his sentence on the social network for 30 days straight.

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