Major m00p hacker sentenced to 18 months 

Major m00p hacker sentenced to 18 months

Used fake anti-virus emails.
Hacker accomplice gets five years prison 

Hacker accomplice gets five years prison

Sold credit card data, aided hacking.
Hackers sentenced for trojan bank heist 

Hackers sentenced for trojan bank heist

Cyber thieves facing up to four years in jail.
Peer-to-peer identity thief sentenced to 51 months 

Peer-to-peer identity thief sentenced to 51 months

A Seattle man has been sentenced to 51 months in prison after pleading guilty last year to using file-sharing programs to perpetrate identity theft.
Child porn hacker sentenced to 110 years in prison 

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...
Arizona man sentenced in credit card theft ring 

Arizona man sentenced in credit card theft ring

An Arizona man who obtained stolen credit card numbers from overseas hackers and then used the data to withdraw money from cash machines has been sentenced to 84 months in prison.
US hacker sentenced to one year's imprisonment 

US hacker sentenced to one year's imprisonment

A US citizen who pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit computer fraud and identity theft has been sentenced to one year's imprisonment by a Florida court.
US Judge  sentenced to prison for child porn 

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 ...
MySpace superworm creator sentenced to probation, community service 

MySpace superworm creator sentenced to probation, community service

The man responsible for unleashing what is believed to be the first self-propagating cross-site scripting worm has pleaded guilty in Los Angeles Superior Court to charges ...
Convicted hacker sentenced to three years in jail 

Convicted hacker sentenced to three years in jail

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.
Teen sentenced for Blaster worm variant  

Teen sentenced for Blaster worm variant

A 19-year-old man was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison and 10 months of community service for releasing a variant of the Blaster worm that infected thousands of PCs in 2003.
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