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US authorities on Thursday accused a Chinese national visiting the US of providing malware that has been linked to the theft of security clearance records of millions of US government employees. Yu Pingan of Shanghai was arrested on Monday at Los Angeles International Airport after a federal criminal complaint accused…

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Jason Needham, 45, of Arlington, Tennessee was sentenced last week to 18 months in prison and two years of supervised release for hacking his former company’s FTP server and the email account of one of his former colleagues. Needham did all the hacking after he left his former employer, Allen…

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Accused Yahoo hacker Karim Baratov is going ahead with a hearing to fight his extradition to the United States, but only if his legal team can’t reach a resolution with U.S. officials in the interim. Wednesday marked the deadline for when the 22-year-old’s lawyer had to tell a Hamilton court…

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A court in Moscow sentenced Vladimir Anikeev to two years in prison on Thursday for leaking the hacked correspondence of senior Kremlin officials and members of the Russian elite. Mr Anikeev had earlier pled guilty to being the ringleader of the shadowy online collective Shaltai-Boltai, or Humpty Dumpty, in a…

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Sunny Nehra would give YouTube tutorials on responsible hacking and his Facebook page sharing similar tips had amassed 10,000 followers But it has been alleged that the 24-year-old engineering dropout could not resist the lure of ‘easy money’ and targetted international online shoppers He is now in judicial custody after…

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British police announced today they arrested two suspects part of an international group that hacked into Microsoft’s network. The two suspects are a 22-year-old man from Lincolnshire and a 25-year-old man from Bracknell. The South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) arrested the two this morning, searched their homes for…

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A 42-year-old Montgomery County man has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for hacking computers that caused a business disruption to municipal water utilities, prosecutors said Thursday. Adam Flanagan, of Bala Cynwyd, had pleaded guilty in March to two counts of unauthorized access to a…

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An Iraqi activist has been arrested for hacking the National Security Service’s website and posting a message criticising it, but his detention has inspired further hacks calling for his release. Hussein Mahdi had previously targeted other Iraqi government websites to air grievances against the authorities, who have now responded in…

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Roman Seleznev, of Vladivostok, Russia, has been arraigned on federal cyber fraud charges associated with the 2008 hack and theft of banking credentials from RBS Worldpay, a payment processing company located in Atlanta, Georgia. Seleznev was indicted by a federal grand jury on Dec. 22, 2014. “In 2008, an American…

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