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Hacker gets seven years for breaching Rotterdam and Antwerp ports
The Amsterdam Court of Appeal sentenced a 44-year-old Dutch national to seven years in prison for multiple crimes, including computer hacking and attempted extortion. The man was arrested in 2021 and convicted in 2022 by the Amsterdam District Court, but he appealed the sentence because authorities had unlawfully intercepted his communications, deriving incriminating evidence. These communications […]
Man behind in-flight Evil Twin WiFi attacks gets 7 years in prison
A 44-year-old man was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for operating an “evil twin” WiFi network to steal the data of unsuspecting travelers during flights and at various airports across Australia. The man, an Australian national, was charged in July 2024 after Australian authorities had confiscated his equipment in April and confirmed that he […]
BreachForums hacking forum admin resentenced to three years in prison
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the 22-year-old behind the notorious BreachForums hacking forum, was resentenced today to three years in prison after a federal appeals court overturned his prior sentence of time served and 20 years of supervised release. Fitzpatrick, of New York, operated under the alias “Pompompurin” and created the BreachForums hacking forum in 2022 after the FBI […]
Man gets over 4 years in prison for selling unreleased movies
A Tennessee court has sentenced a Memphis man who worked for a DVD and Blu-ray manufacturing and distribution company to 57 months in prison for stealing and selling digital copies of unreleased movies. 37-year-old Steven R. Hale was charged in March with selling ripped DVD and Blu-ray discs of movies before their release. Prosecutors stated at the […]
Dev gets 4 years for creating kill switch on ex-employer’s systems
A software developer has been sentenced to four years in prison for sabotaging his ex-employer’s Windows network with custom malware and a kill switch that locked out employees when his account was disabled. Davis Lu, 55, a Chinese national living legally in Houston, worked for an Ohio-based company, reportedly Eaton Corporation, from 2007 until his […]
Colt confirms customer data stolen as Warlock ransomware auctions files
UK-based telecommunications company Colt Technology Services confirms that customer documentation was stolen as Warlock ransomware gang auctions files. The British telecommunications and network services provider previously disclosed it suffered an attack on August 12, but this is the first time they confirmed data had been stolen. “A criminal group has accessed certain files from our […]
Scattered Spider hacker gets sentenced to 10 years in prison
Noah Michael Urban, a key member of the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to charges of wire fraud and conspiracy in April. He was arrested in January 2024, and in November, the U.S. Justice Department charged Urban (also known as King Bob, Gustavo Fring, Elijah, and Sosa), along […]
UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison
A 26-year old in the UK who claimed to have hacked thousands of websites was sentenced to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year. Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky of Rotherham, UK, was arrested in 2022 based on information received from U.S. law enforcement and charged for stealing log in details of millions of Facebook users, and […]
Woman gets 8 years for aiding North Koreans infiltrate 300 US firms
Christina Marie Chapman, a 50-year-old woman from Arizona, was sentenced to 102 months in prison after pleading guilty to her involvement in a scheme that enabled North Korean IT workers to infiltrate 309 U.S. companies. Chapman was charged in May 2024, together with Ukrainian citizen Oleksandr Didenko, with aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to defraud the United States, […]
California man steals $50 million using fake investment sites, gets 7 years
A 59-year-old man from Irvine, California, was sentenced to 87 months in prison for his involvement in an investor fraud ring that stole $50 million between 2012 and October 2020. Allen Giltman and other fraudsters used over 150 fraudulent sites impersonating financial institutions that advertised various investment opportunities (primarily certificates of deposit with higher than […]