October 2010
Russian Hacker Bust: Is the FBI Chasing Mules?
(via)The FBI wanted poster looks like a yearbook page from a Russian provincial college. Seventeen men and women from Eastern Europe, mostly between the ages of 19 and 22, with bad skin, nerdy haircuts and no resemblance to your stereotypical bank robbers.
July 2010
Hacker arrested for spying on schoolgirls via their own webcams
(via)A man has been arrested for spying on more than 150 girls in their bedrooms by hacking into their computers and using their webcams to watch them, provoking warnings that others will be doing the same thing.
June 2010
Computer hacker used fraud money to buy Porsche and gold
(via)Alistair Peckover, 21, systematically defrauded legitimate online businesses and unsuspecting members of the public with his self-taught computer skills. Peckover, of London Road, Hailsham, East Sussex, was jailed for 20 months at Southend Crown Court in Essex after admitting two counts of fraud.
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