Palin hacker begins time in prison 

Palin hacker begins time in prison

In Hackers - By Dan Kaplan, 17 January 2011 11:44 AM
Moved from halfway house.
Regulator sticks to its guns on mobile jamming ban 

Regulator sticks to its guns on mobile jamming ban

In Web/client - By Mahesh Sharma, 11 November 2010 9:26 AM
A blow to plans to block signal in NSW prisons.
Prison sentence for RBS hacker suspended in Russia 

Prison sentence for RBS hacker suspended in Russia

In Hackers - By Angela Moscaritolo, 10 September 2010 1:15 PM
Hackers unlikely to face punishment in the US.
Hacker Albert Gonzalez receives 20 years in prison 

Hacker Albert Gonzalez receives 20 years in prison

In Hackers - By Angela Moscaritolo, 26 March 2010 1:58 PM
Largest ever U.S. prison sentence for a hacker.
"Iceman" hacker gets 13 years 

"Iceman" hacker gets 13 years

In Hackers - By Dan Kaplan, 17 February 2010 10:41 AM
CardersMarket mastermind behind bars.
"Iceman" hacker pleads guilty, faces 60 years 

"Iceman" hacker pleads guilty, faces 60 years

In Hackers - By Angela Moscaritolo, 1 July 2009 11:06 AM
A hacker who went by the alias "Iceman" pleaded guilty in a US federal court to charges of wire fraud and now faces up to 60 years in prison.
TJX hacker gets 30-year prison sentence 

TJX hacker gets 30-year prison sentence

In Hackers - By Angela Moscaritolo, 9 January 2009 10:48 AM
A Ukrainian man, one of the orchestrator's of the monster TJX breach, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in Turkey.
Palin email intruder indicted, faces up to five years in prison 

Palin email intruder indicted, faces up to five years in prison

In Risk - By Dan Kaplan, 9 October 2008 9:44 AM
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.
Convicted spammer escapes from prison 

Convicted spammer escapes from prison

In Hackers - By Iain Thomson, 23 July 2008 1:24 PM
Convicted spammer Edward "Eddie" Davidson has escaped from a federal prison camp after serving just five weeks of a 21 month sentence.
Systems administrator gets 30 months in prison for 'logic bomb' 

Systems administrator gets 30 months in prison for 'logic bomb'

In Crypto - By Frank Washkuch, 10 January 2008 2:26 PM
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 ...
Child porn hacker sentenced to 110 years in prison 

Child porn hacker sentenced to 110 years in prison

In Hackers - By Dan Kaplan, 4 December 2007 10:44 AM
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...
Los Angeles botmaster faces 60 years in prison, US$1.75 million fine 

Los Angeles botmaster faces 60 years in prison, US$1.75 million fine

In Hackers - By Frank Washkush Jr, 13 November 2007 9:59 AM
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 ...
Guilty CAN-SPAMMER faces nearly six years in prison 

Guilty CAN-SPAMMER faces nearly six years in prison

In Hackers - By Jim Carr, 18 June 2007 10:25 AM
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 ...
Brooklyn spammer faces 11 years in prison 

Brooklyn spammer faces 11 years in prison

In Messaging - By Frank Washkuch, 14 June 2007 11:16 AM
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.
Pentagon hacker could face 60 years in prison after extradition to US 

Pentagon hacker could face 60 years in prison after extradition to US

In Hackers - By Fiona Raisbeck, 4 April 2007 10:29 AM
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.
US Judge sentenced to prison for child porn 

US Judge sentenced to prison for child porn

In Hackers - By Ericka Chickowski, 22 February 2007 10:32 PM
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 ...
Singapore man faces 180 years in prison  

Singapore man faces 180 years in prison

In Hackers - By Frank Washkuch, 9 January 2007 5:57 PM
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.
Denial of service attackers face 10 years in prison 

Denial of service attackers face 10 years in prison

In Risk - By Fiona Raisbeck, 13 November 2006 11:50 AM
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.
Trojan-creating couple gets prison time 

Trojan-creating couple gets prison time

By Dan Kaplan, 27 March 2006 11:17 PM
An Israeli couple that created a trojan that helped Israeli companies spy on each other were sentenced to prison today, several media outlets reported.
Paris Hilton hacker gets prison punishment  

Paris Hilton hacker gets prison punishment

By René Millman, 16 September 2005 4:25 PM
A Massachusetts teen has pleaded guilty to hacking into Paris Hilton's Sidekick cell phone.
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