Slashdot Items Tagged "crime"

Date / Time Story
Friday April 05, 2024 @04:09PM Terraform Labs and Founder Do Kwon Found Liable In US Civil Fraud Trial
Thursday March 28, 2024 @11:52AM Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced To 25 Years in Prison
Thursday March 28, 2024 @01:06AM Nigerian Woman Faces Jail Time For Facebook Review of Tomato Sauce
Monday March 25, 2024 @05:35PM Binance Executive Detained In Nigeria Escapes Custody
Monday March 25, 2024 @04:37PM SWAT Team Raids Innocent Family Over Stolen AirPods, Inaccurate 'FindMy' App Tracking
Wednesday March 20, 2024 @05:10PM Woman With $2.5 Billion In Bitcoin Convicted of Money Laundering
Friday March 15, 2024 @03:48PM Sam Bankman-Fried Deserves 40-50 Years in Prison For FTX Fraud, Prosecutors Say
Thursday March 07, 2024 @05:14PM US Lost Record $12.5 Billion To Online Crime In 2023, Says FBI
Wednesday March 06, 2024 @07:57PM Former Google Engineer Indicted For Stealing AI Secrets To Aid Chinese Companies
Tuesday March 05, 2024 @08:42PM Man Charged With Smuggling Greenhouse Gases Into US
Monday March 04, 2024 @05:55PM San Francisco Police Make Arrest In Waymo Chinatown Arson Case
Sunday March 03, 2024 @08:16PM Decades-Old Missing Person Mystery Solved After Relative Uploads DNA To GEDMatch
Saturday March 02, 2024 @03:01AM Ransomware Attack Hampers Prescription Drug Sales at 90% of US Pharmacies
Thursday February 29, 2024 @06:31PM The FBI Is Using Push Notifications To Catch Sexual Predators
Wednesday February 28, 2024 @05:30PM SBF Asks For 5-Year Prison Sentence, Calls 100-Year Recommendation 'Grotesque'
Saturday February 24, 2024 @09:53PM Oklahoma Man Hacked US Government Site To Buy Cars At Auction For $1
Friday February 23, 2024 @04:54PM US Man Accused of Making $1.8 Million From Listening In On Wife's Remote Work Calls
Friday February 16, 2024 @10:09PM Zeus, IcedID Malware Kingpin Faces 40 Years In Prison
Tuesday February 13, 2024 @06:36PM Wi-Fi Jamming To Knock Out Cameras Suspected In Nine Minnesota Burglaries
Monday February 12, 2024 @06:25PM WhatsApp Image Sender Becomes First Convicted Cyber-Flasher
Saturday February 10, 2024 @05:13PM Will FTX Customers Fully Recoup Their Money?
Thursday February 08, 2024 @05:35PM Thieves Steal 200ft Tower From Alabama Radio Station
Monday February 05, 2024 @01:00PM Inside the Underground Site Where 'Neural Networks' Churn Out Fake IDs
Sunday February 04, 2024 @10:43PM Scammer Poses As CFO in Deepfaked Meeting On Zoom, Steals $25 Million
Friday February 02, 2024 @10:34PM Police Departments Are Turning To AI To Sift Through Unreviewed Body-Cam Footage
Friday February 02, 2024 @04:29PM YouTube, Discord, and Lord of the Rings Led Police To a Teen Accused of a US Swatting Spree
Friday February 02, 2024 @04:11PM Three People Indicted In $400 Million FTX Crypto Hack Conspiracy
Thursday February 01, 2024 @09:36PM Ex-CIA Software Engineer Sentenced To 40 Years For Giving Secrets To WikiLeaks
Friday January 26, 2024 @08:10PM The Great Freight-Train Heists of the 21st Century
Monday January 22, 2024 @06:25PM IT Consultant Fined For Daring To Expose Shoddy Security
Sunday January 21, 2024 @11:08PM Walmart's Financial Services 'Became a Fraud Magnet', Says ProPublica
Saturday January 20, 2024 @08:08PM Hans Reiser Sends a Letter From Prison
Friday January 19, 2024 @06:55AM Crime Rings Are Trafficking in an Unlikely Treasure: Sand
Thursday January 18, 2024 @05:12PM 'Stablecoins' Enabled $40 Billion In Crypto Crime Since 2022
Thursday January 11, 2024 @07:00PM eBay To Pay $3 Million Penalty For Employees Sending Live Cockroaches, Fetal Pig To Bloggers
Wednesday January 10, 2024 @07:16PM Englishman Who Posed As HyperVerse CEO Says Sorry To Investors Who Lost Millions
Sunday January 07, 2024 @05:18PM A Microscopic Metal Flake Could Finally Reveal DB Cooper's Identity
Friday January 05, 2024 @08:56AM Mexican Cartel Provided Wi-Fi To Locals - With Threat of Death If They Didn't Use It
Wednesday January 03, 2024 @06:01PM Firmware Prank Causes LED Curtain In Russia To Display 'Slava Ukraini'
Thursday December 21, 2023 @06:14PM Teen GTA VI Hacker Sentenced To Indefinite Hospital Order
Monday December 18, 2023 @05:01PM Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Sentenced To 4 Years For Securities Fraud
Sunday December 17, 2023 @11:51PM ProPublica Argues US Police 'Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras'
Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:12PM Cloud Engineer Gets 2 Years For Wiping Ex-Employer's Code Repos
Monday December 04, 2023 @07:06PM YouTuber Who Deliberately Crashed Plane For Views Is Headed To Federal Prison
Monday November 27, 2023 @06:27PM Several Piracy-Related Arrests Spark Fears of High-Level Crackdown In Nordic Region
Sunday November 26, 2023 @08:20PM Startup Suggests Fighting Porch Piracy with AI-Enhanced Shipment Insurance
Tuesday November 21, 2023 @11:57AM North Koreans Use Fake Names, Scripts To Land Remote IT Work For Cash
Friday November 17, 2023 @09:11PM FCC Tightens Telco Rules To Combat SIM-Swapping
Tuesday November 14, 2023 @10:50AM Google Sues Men Who Weaponized DMCA Notices To Crush Competition
Tuesday November 14, 2023 @10:42AM Person Linked To Scam Asks FBI for His Seized Cryptocurrency Back
Sunday November 12, 2023 @05:30PM AI-Generated Voice Deepfakes are Being Used in Scams
Monday November 06, 2023 @08:08PM 'Encryption King' Arrested In Turkey
Monday November 06, 2023 @07:39PM Washington DC Gives Residents Free AirTags To Help Track Stolen Cars
Thursday November 02, 2023 @09:55PM FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty of Fraud
Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:07PM Two Russian Nationals Charged For Hacking Taxi System At JFK Airport
Monday October 30, 2023 @10:03PM SEC Charges SolarWinds CISO With Fraud and Cybersecurity Failures
Sunday October 29, 2023 @12:34AM How a Cellphone App Helped a California Man Retrieve His Stolen Car
Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:29PM Barcode Leads To Arrest of Texas Litterbug Behind 200 Pounds of Dumped Trash
Sunday October 22, 2023 @07:09PM California Law Limits Bitcoin ATM Transactions to $1,000 to Thwart Scammers
Saturday October 21, 2023 @05:16PM Inside a $30 Million Cash-for-Bitcoin Laundering Ring In New York
Saturday October 21, 2023 @01:03AM Scammers Try Hosting Their Malware on a Binance Network
Friday October 20, 2023 @02:10AM Indian Authorities Raid Fake Tech Support Rings After Tipoff From Amazon and Microsoft
Tuesday October 17, 2023 @03:12PM Tech CEO Sentenced To 5 Years in IP Address Scheme
Monday October 16, 2023 @04:41PM New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check To Buy a 3D Printer
Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:49PM How Two Florida Men Scammed 'Uber Eats' Out of $1 Million
Saturday October 07, 2023 @04:08PM Florida Man Could Get 10 Years For Shooting Down a Police Drone
Friday October 06, 2023 @04:12PM Man Jailed In UK's First Treason Conviction In 40 Years Was Encouraged By AI Chatbot
Thursday October 05, 2023 @04:43PM Hundreds of US Schools Hit By Potentially Organized Swatting Hoaxes, Report Says
Tuesday October 03, 2023 @04:54PM Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes
Monday October 02, 2023 @07:31PM Federal Judge Gives Man 8-Year Sentence For Running Unlicensed Bitcoin Exchange
Monday October 02, 2023 @05:59PM UK Passport Images Database Could Be Used To Catch Shoplifters
Monday October 02, 2023 @05:41PM YouTuber Jailed For Large-Scale Cable Piracy Scheme
Sunday October 01, 2023 @04:42PM FBI Indicts Goldman Sachs Analyst Who Tried Using Xbox Chat for Insider Trading
Friday September 29, 2023 @11:09AM Three Arrows Capital Co-Founder Zhu Apprehended, Liquidator Says
Monday September 25, 2023 @02:26PM JPEX Appears To Be a $178 Million Fraud
Saturday September 23, 2023 @08:02PM New York City Deploys 420-Pound RoboCop to Patrol Subway Station
Saturday September 23, 2023 @01:31AM Did Teens Ally with Ransomware Gangs for MGM Breach?
Wednesday September 20, 2023 @11:53AM Sysadmin, Spouse Admit To Part in 'Massive' Pirated Avaya Licenses Scam
Wednesday September 20, 2023 @06:39AM The International Criminal Court In The Hague Says It Has Been Hacked
Sunday September 17, 2023 @05:15PM Las Vegas Still Struggling to Recover from Last Sunday's Cyberattack
Wednesday September 13, 2023 @10:47AM Swedish Criminal Gangs Using Fake Spotify Streams To Launder Money
Tuesday September 12, 2023 @03:58PM 'Cryptoqueen' Sidekick Gets 20 Years For $4 Billion Ponzi
Sunday September 10, 2023 @06:09PM Roblox Cancelled Awards Presentation Due To Security Incident
Friday September 08, 2023 @10:18PM Cheating in Tennis: How Cellphone Records Revealed a Massive Match-Fixing Ring
Friday September 08, 2023 @02:02AM The International Criminal Court Will Now Prosecute Cyberwar Crimes
Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:37PM Ex-FTX Executive Ryan Salame To Forfeit $1.5 Billion As Part of Guilty Plea
Tuesday September 05, 2023 @08:17PM Florida Man Charged Over Failed Attempt To Cross Atlantic In Giant 'Hamster Wheel'
Monday September 04, 2023 @03:55PM Wanted: Skilled Workers To Combat the Rise in Cyber Crime
Saturday September 02, 2023 @06:17PM Ignored by Police, Two Women Took Down Their Cyber-Harasser Themselves
Saturday September 02, 2023 @01:36AM 'Starfield' Fan Banned From Subreddit For Narcing On Leaker To Cops
Friday September 01, 2023 @08:00PM NYPD To Deploy Drones To Monitor Backyard Parties This Holiday Weekend
Wednesday August 30, 2023 @05:17PM Saudi Man Receives Death Penalty For Posts Online
Wednesday August 30, 2023 @02:40PM Hundreds of Thousands Trafficked To Work as Online Scammers in Southeast Asia, Says UN Report
Monday August 28, 2023 @08:34PM Kias and Hyundais Keep Getting Stolen By the Thousands and Cities Are Suing
Saturday August 26, 2023 @04:23PM UK Police Force Loses 3 Years of Body Camera Footage
Wednesday August 23, 2023 @01:25PM Tornado Cash Founders Charged With Laundering More Than $1 Billion
Wednesday August 23, 2023 @12:42PM Teenagers Convicted of Grand Theft Auto, Nvidia Lapsus$ Hacks in the UK
Saturday August 19, 2023 @02:29AM Thousands of Crypto Scammers are Enslaved by Human-Trafficking Gangsters, Says Bloomberg Reporter
Thursday August 17, 2023 @08:19PM Florida House Passes Bill To Ban "Internet Cafes"
Thursday August 17, 2023 @08:18PM Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment
Monday August 14, 2023 @04:28PM Bomb Threat Causes Mass Evacuation at DEF CON Hacking Convention
Saturday August 12, 2023 @05:50PM The Untold History of Today's Russian-Speaking Hackers
Friday August 11, 2023 @07:45PM 'Bulletproof' Web Site Hosting Ransomware Finally Seized, Founder Indicted
Friday August 11, 2023 @04:22PM FTX's Bankman-Fried Headed For Jail After Judge Revokes Bail
Tuesday August 08, 2023 @06:17AM Serial Murders Have Dwindled, Thanks To a Cautious Citizenry and Improved Technology
Friday August 04, 2023 @02:35PM Razzlekhan and Husband Guilty of Bitcoin Launder
Sunday July 23, 2023 @08:15PM AI Watches Millions of Cars and Tells Cops if You Might Be a Criminal
Friday July 14, 2023 @11:05PM Teenagers Have Bought 'Ghost Guns' Online, Sometimes with Deadly Consequences
Thursday July 13, 2023 @08:56AM Alex Mashinsky, Ex-CEO of Bankrupt Celsius, Arrested
Tuesday July 11, 2023 @02:42PM Silk Road's Second-in-Command Gets 20 Years in Prison
Monday July 10, 2023 @08:25PM Elizabeth Holmes' Prison Sentence Was Quietly Reduced By Two Years
Friday July 07, 2023 @09:25PM 22-Year-Old Gamer Sentenced in France for 2020 Swatting of Ubisoft's Montreal Office
Wednesday July 05, 2023 @04:57PM Man Who Tried To Kill Queen With Crossbow Encouraged By AI Chatbot, Prosecutors Say
Saturday July 01, 2023 @12:57AM Should UK Stores Use Facial Recognition Tech to Fight Shoplifting?
Friday June 30, 2023 @06:44PM FBI Forms National Database To Track and Prevent 'Swatting'
Monday June 26, 2023 @04:22PM Twitter Hacker Who Turned Celebrity Accounts Into Crypto Shills Gets Prison Sentence
Saturday June 24, 2023 @01:10PM 61-Year-Old Shot, Killed After Tracking Stolen Vehicle With Apple AirTag
Friday June 23, 2023 @10:31PM US Seeks 70-Month Prison Sentence For YouTube Content ID Scammer
Thursday June 22, 2023 @05:26PM LexisNexis Is Selling Your Personal Data To ICE So It Can Try To Predict Crimes
Saturday June 10, 2023 @03:15PM Ted Kaczynski, Known as the 'Unabomber,' has Died in Prison at Age 81
Tuesday May 30, 2023 @07:14PM Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted For H-1B Visa Fraud
Tuesday May 30, 2023 @04:56PM Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Begins 11-Year Prison Sentence
Tuesday May 30, 2023 @03:44PM Men Behind UK's Largest Pirate Service Jailed For 30+ Years
Saturday May 20, 2023 @04:45PM 'How the 35-year-old Weed Smoker Behind 10 Million Scam Calls Made His Fortune'
Wednesday May 17, 2023 @04:11PM Court Orders Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes To Go To Prison
Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:41PM Re-Victimization From Police-Auctioned Cell Phones
Thursday May 11, 2023 @11:32PM YouTuber Who Deliberately Crashed Airplane For Views Admits To Obstructing Federal Investigation
Thursday May 11, 2023 @04:43PM Inside the Italian Mafia's Encrypted Phone of Choice
Thursday May 11, 2023 @04:19PM Ex-Ubiquiti Engineer Behind 'Breathtaking' Data Theft Gets 6-Year Prison Term
Wednesday May 10, 2023 @05:57PM Former Coinbase Product Manager Gets Two Years For Insider Trading
Tuesday May 09, 2023 @05:24PM SBF Asks Court To Dismiss Most Criminal Charges Against Him
Sunday May 07, 2023 @10:43PM Elizabeth Holmes Speaks
Tuesday May 02, 2023 @04:46PM NYPD Urges Citizens To Buy AirTags To Fight Surge In Car Thefts
Friday April 28, 2023 @01:23PM Former Apple Employee Must Repay $19 Million After Defrauding the Company
Tuesday April 25, 2023 @01:31PM Terra Co-founder Daniel Shin Charged With Fraud in South Korea
Sunday April 23, 2023 @12:56AM Argentina's 'Generacion Zoe' Promised Financial and Spirtual Development. Was it a Ponzi Scheme?
Friday April 21, 2023 @05:38PM Autonomy Founder Mike Lynch Loses Appeal Against Extradition To US
Tuesday April 18, 2023 @07:26PM Nintendo 'Hacker' Gary Bowser Released From Federal Prison
Thursday April 13, 2023 @10:13PM A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America
Thursday April 13, 2023 @05:00PM Tech Executive Arrested In San Francisco Killing of Cash App Creator
Tuesday April 11, 2023 @10:25PM The NYPD Is Bringing Back Its Robot Dog
Monday April 10, 2023 @01:36PM Sam Bankman-Fried Declared Alameda 'Unauditable,' New Report Shows
Friday April 07, 2023 @04:15PM Thieves Tunnel Through Coffee Shop Wall To Steal $500,000 In iPhones From Washington Apple Store
Friday April 07, 2023 @08:05AM US Treasury Warns DeFi Is Used by North Korea, Scammers To Launder Dirty Money
Tuesday April 04, 2023 @05:53PM FBI Seizes Bot Shop 'Genesis Market'
Sunday April 02, 2023 @06:36PM Vandals Cut 2,000 Fiber Optic Cables in Connecticut, Knocking 16,000 Offline
Saturday April 01, 2023 @08:17PM Truck Thief Gunned Down by Owner After AirTag Gives Away Location
Saturday April 01, 2023 @04:04PM Scammers are Tricking Instagram Into Banning Influencers
Friday March 31, 2023 @10:50PM German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host 'FlyHosting'
Thursday March 30, 2023 @05:59PM China Shuts Down Major Manga Piracy Site Following Complaint From Japan
Tuesday March 28, 2023 @05:39PM SBF Charged With Paying $40 Million Bribe
Saturday March 25, 2023 @03:20PM The Tinder Car Heist and the Plot For Revenge
Thursday March 23, 2023 @04:27PM Terraform Labs Founder Do Kwon Arrested In Montenegro
Monday March 20, 2023 @04:44PM Indian Officials Cut Internet For 27 Million People Amid Search For Fugitive
Saturday March 18, 2023 @03:13AM Dark Web 'BreachForums' Operator Charged With Computer Crime
Wednesday March 15, 2023 @01:50AM Two US Men Charged In 2022 Hacking of DEA Portal
Saturday March 11, 2023 @11:25PM Teens Are Stealing More Cars. They Learn How on Social Media.
Saturday March 11, 2023 @02:16PM Does IceFire Ransomware Portend a Broader Shift From Windows to Linux?
Friday March 10, 2023 @11:17PM People Were Unwittingly Implanted With Fake Devices In Medical Scam, FBI Alleges
Wednesday March 08, 2023 @01:33PM YouTuber Sentenced To Over 5 Years and Ordered To Forfeit $30 Million in Large-Scale Cable Piracy Case
Saturday March 04, 2023 @09:51PM Sam Bankman-Fried is Under House Arrest - at Stanford. Students are Fascinated
Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:34PM BitTorrent Seedbox Provider Handed Criminal Conviction Over Users' Piracy
Tuesday February 28, 2023 @06:17PM FTX Ex-Engineering Chief Nishad Singh Pleads Guilty To Criminal Charges
Saturday February 25, 2023 @04:32PM Thieves Spy on iPhone Owners' Passcodes, Then Steal Their Phones and Money
Saturday February 25, 2023 @12:27AM Ransomware Attacks, Payments Declined In 2022: Report
Thursday February 23, 2023 @07:27PM FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Hit With Four New Criminal Charges
Thursday February 23, 2023 @07:18PM Crypto Mining Operation Found In School Crawl Space
Thursday February 09, 2023 @05:44PM US, UK Sanction 7 Men Tied To Trickbot Hacking Group
Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:07PM UK Proposes Making the Sale and Possession of Encrypted Phones Illegal
Tuesday February 07, 2023 @12:07PM Ex-Coinbase Manager Pleads Guilty in Crypto-Related First Insider Trading Case
Monday February 06, 2023 @05:46PM Finland's Most-Wanted Hacker Nabbed In France
Saturday February 04, 2023 @01:06AM After Cracking Another 'Secure' Messaging App, European Police Arrest 42
Friday February 03, 2023 @02:12PM Former Ubiquiti Employee Pleads Guilty To Attempted Extortion Scheme
Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:52PM 'Pig-Butchering' Scam Apps Sneak Into Apple's App Store and Google Play
Saturday January 28, 2023 @04:28PM Security Researchers Breached Server of Russia's 'Black Basta' Ransomware Gang
Friday January 27, 2023 @06:40PM Boeing Pleads Not Guilty To Fraud In Criminal Case Over Deadly 737 Max Crashes
Sunday January 22, 2023 @02:27PM How OneCoin's 'Cryptoqueen' Scammed Investors Out of $4 Billion
Wednesday January 18, 2023 @01:23PM Founder and Majority Owner of Bitzlato, a Cryptocurrency Exchange, Charged with Unlicensed Money Transmitting
Monday January 16, 2023 @06:23PM Police Complaint Removes Pirate Bay Proxy Portal From GitHub
Sunday January 15, 2023 @10:28PM 'Search Everyone First?' Lawyers Challenge Use of Warrants to Find Google Searchers
Thursday January 12, 2023 @04:38PM UK Could Jail Social Media Bosses Who Breach Child Safety Rules
Thursday January 12, 2023 @11:57AM JP Morgan Says Startup Founder Used Millions Of Fake Customers To Dupe It Into An Acquisition
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @06:35PM The First Insider Trading Case Involving Cryptocurrency
Sunday January 08, 2023 @10:11PM San Jose Police Announce Three Stolen Vehicles Recovered Using Automatic License Plate Reader
Sunday January 08, 2023 @06:55PM A $402K GoFundMe Scam Leads to a Three-Year Prison Term
Saturday January 07, 2023 @03:40PM Two Washington Men Charged In Four Substation Attacks on Christmas That Cut Power
Thursday January 05, 2023 @12:03PM New York Sues Celsius Network Founder Mashinsky, Alleges Fraud
Tuesday January 03, 2023 @05:25PM Sam Bankman-Fried Pleads Not Guilty To Federal Fraud Charges In New York
Thursday December 29, 2022 @09:38PM Software Engineer Charged For Theft Inspired By the Movie 'Office Space'
Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:34AM FTX Diverted $200 Million of Customer Money For Two Venture Deals, SEC Says
Wednesday December 28, 2022 @12:02PM US Charges Fraud in Mango Crypto Manipulation Case
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @04:44PM Lawyer Fees Mount in Crypto Bankruptcies
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @02:00AM Reasons to Watch Crime Shows
Monday December 26, 2022 @02:39PM Americans Duped Into Losing $10 Billion By Illegal Indian Call Centres in 2022
Saturday December 24, 2022 @01:23AM Six Arrested After Manipulating Gas Station Pumps To Steal 30,000 Gallons of Gas
Thursday December 22, 2022 @06:26PM Alameda's Caroline Ellison, FTX's Gary Wang Plead Guilty To DOJ Fraud Charges
Thursday December 22, 2022 @02:47PM FTX Founder Bankman-Fried To Be Released on a $250 Million Bond Package While He Awaits Trial
Wednesday December 21, 2022 @01:40PM Sam Bankman-Fried's Extradition Approved by Judge
Tuesday December 20, 2022 @05:11PM OneCoin Co-Founder Pleads Guilty To $4 Billion Fraud
Monday December 19, 2022 @09:55PM Swatters Used Ring Cameras To Livestream Attacks, Taunt Police, Prosecutors Say