ATM hacker gets three years prison 

ATM hacker gets three years prison

In Hackers - By Liam Tung, 11 May 2011 1:52 PM
Hacker accessed default passwords from online manuals to make ATMs spew cash.
VoiP mastermind hacker gets 10 years 

VoiP mastermind hacker gets 10 years

In Networks - By Liam Tung, 27 September 2010 9:10 AM
Sold 10 million stolen minutes.
Report: Council posts jail floor plans online 

Report: Council posts jail floor plans online

In Web/client - 15 April 2010 12:30 PM
Gun safe, holding cells and guards’ post revealed.
Spam magnate sentenced to over four years jail 

Spam magnate sentenced to over four years jail

In Hackers - By Dan Kaplan, 25 November 2009 10:44 AM
Breached spam and fraud laws.
Hackers sentenced for trojan bank heist 

Hackers sentenced for trojan bank heist

In Hackers - By Shaun Nichols, 18 November 2009 10:46 AM
Cyber thieves facing up to four years in jail.
Spammer jailed for 30 months 

Spammer jailed for 30 months

In Hackers - By Iain Thomson, 18 July 2008 10:10 AM
A New York court has sentenced a persistent spammer to 30 months in prison.
Chinese Red Cross hacker gets two years in jail 

Chinese Red Cross hacker gets two years in jail

In Hackers - By Iain Thomson, 15 July 2008 10:05 AM
A Chinese man has been sentenced to two years in jail after hacking a Red Cross web site launched for the victims of China's recent earthquake.
Student hackers face 20 years in jail 

Student hackers face 20 years in jail

In Hackers - By Iain Thomson, 7 November 2007 9:47 AM
Two students have been charged with hacking into the California State University database and changing their grades..
'Spam king' given 30-year jail sentence 

'Spam king' given 30-year jail sentence

In Hackers - By Jim Carr, 7 August 2007 10:20 AM
Christopher Smith, the notorious "pharmacy spam king," has received a 30-year-jail sentence for running an illegal internet store that sold millions of dollars in prescription ...
Sweden to jail DoS attackers 

Sweden to jail DoS attackers

In Web/client - By Shaun Nichols, 23 February 2007 1:58 PM
Up to two years behind bars for launching denial of service attacks.
Dutch botnet gang facing jail 

Dutch botnet gang facing jail

In Hackers - By Tom Sanders, 18 January 2007 10:45 AM
Network of zombie PCs accrued €60,000 ($99,000).
California phisher faces century in jail for targeting AOL users 

California phisher faces century in jail for targeting AOL users

In Hackers - By Frank Washkuch, 17 January 2007 6:17 PM
A California man has been convicted of violating the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 for mass-emailing AOL users and requesting credit card information.
Fathers 4 Justice hacker spared jail 

Fathers 4 Justice hacker spared jail

In Applications - By Robert Jaques, 10 November 2006 9:50 AM
A security firm has criticised the UK courts for inconsistent sentencing of cyber-criminals after a Fathers 4 Justice campaigner who admitted hacking a website and distributing ...
Florida hacker faces two years in jail, $400,000 fine  

Florida hacker faces two years in jail, $400,000 fine

In Risk - By Ericka Chickowski, 25 October 2006 12:46 AM
The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it charged a Florida man today in federal court for establishing a botnet from which he launched a denial of service attack ...
Convicted hacker sentenced to three years in jail 

Convicted hacker sentenced to three years in jail

By Frank Washkuch, 29 August 2006 7:52 PM
A California man was sentenced to three years in prison last week for hacking into thousands of PCs, including some within the U.S. Department of Defense.
Kiwis jail first internet fraudster 

Kiwis jail first internet fraudster

By René Millman, 31 May 2006 11:32 AM
A New Zealand man has been jailed for nearly three years after he was found guilty of hacking the accounts of internet bank and auction site users.
Iowa phisher gets 21 months in jail 

Iowa phisher gets 21 months in jail

By Dan Kaplan, 22 May 2006 8:48 PM
An Iowa man, guilty of using phishing schemes to dupe as many as 250 MSN customers into giving up their personal information, was sentenced Friday to 21 months in prison.
Botmaster Ancheta gets 57 months in jail 

Botmaster Ancheta gets 57 months in jail

By René Millman, 9 May 2006 4:23 PM
A hacker has been jailed for almost five years for creating a zombie network of hundreds of thousands of computers.
'Fat Spaniard' hacker faces 40 years in jail  

'Fat Spaniard' hacker faces 40 years in jail

By William Eazel, 11 April 2006 9:27 AM
An individual suspected of hacking hundreds of thousands of euros from bank accounts has been extradited from Argentina by international authorities.
Israeli court to jail husband and wife trojan team 

Israeli court to jail husband and wife trojan team

By William Eazel, 15 March 2006 11:04 AM
A married couple is to be jailed for developing and selling an industrial espionage spyware trojan that helped private investigators spy on their clients' competitors.
Hackers to face decade in jail 

Hackers to face decade in jail

By René Millman, 8 March 2006 4:44 PM
Hackers in the U.K. could face ten years in jail under stiff new laws passed in parliament.
Botmaster faces six years in jail 

Botmaster faces six years in jail

By René Millman, 24 January 2006 11:20 AM
A 20-year-old man who seized control of hundreds of thousands of zombie computers, using them to display cash-generating adverts and renting them out to hackers to send spam ...
$20m software pirate sent to jail  

$20m software pirate sent to jail

By William Eazel, 22 December 2005 11:33 AM
Nathan Peterson, owner and operator of iBackups, pleaded guilty in a District Court in Alexandria, Va., to two counts of criminal copyright infringement for illegally copying ...
'Dr. Chaos' gets seven more years in jail 

'Dr. Chaos' gets seven more years in jail

By Frank Washkuch, 1 December 2005 8:20 PM
The hacker responsible for a series of Wisconsin power failures five years ago was sentenced to seven more years in federal prison this week.
Sasser teen escapes spell in jail 

Sasser teen escapes spell in jail

By René Millman, 8 July 2005 2:27 PM
The teen behind the Sasser and Netsky computer worms has avoided a prison sentence, despite admitting he was responsible for the worms that brought computers around the world ...
Time in jail awaits 'Timeshare Spammer' 

Time in jail awaits 'Timeshare Spammer'

By René Millman, 1 July 2005 2:25 PM
A Florida man known as the “Timeshare Spammer” has pleaded guilty to one count of violating federal anti-spam laws.
Italian virus writer avoids jail term 

Italian virus writer avoids jail term

By René Millman, 12 April 2005 4:27 PM
A virus writer has escaped jail, but not a €3,000 ($3,800) fine, after creating and distributing a worm that made premium-rate phone calls from infected computers. The worm was ...
DDoS teens may have to sulk in jail 

DDoS teens may have to sulk in jail

By David Quainton, 23 March 2005 2:45 PM
The FBI has arrested two teenagers in connection with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a New Jersey sporting goods firm.
Blaster writer bargains for less jail time 

Blaster writer bargains for less jail time

By Dan Ilett, 13 August 2004 10:06 AM
The teenager accused of releasing a version of the Blaster worm last year has bargained with officials to reduce his jail time.
Wireless hacker faces 15 years in jail 

Wireless hacker faces 15 years in jail

By Dan Ilett, 7 June 2004 3:40 PM
A wireless hacker faces up to 15 years in jail for stealing credit card numbers from a chain of shops in the US.
Teenage hacker escapes jail 

Teenage hacker escapes jail

By Jon Tullett, 3 February 2004 9:43 AM
A British hacker who triggered a terrorist alert after hacking a US physics laboratory has received a light sentence of 200 hours community service.
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