School principal ordered to pay $3.6M for sharing students’ nude pictures online January 5, 2021 https://www.crimeonline.com/2021/01...ents-phones-posts-their-nude-pictures-online/
Motor industry employee sentenced in ICO Computer Misuse Act prosecution January 8, 2021 https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/ne...enced-in-ico-computer-misuse-act-prosecution/
RG Coins cryptocurrency exchange owner lands 10 years behind bars for money laundering January 13, 2021 https://www.zdnet.com/article/rg-co...ds-10-years-behind-bars-for-money-laundering/
Florida Ethics Officer Charged with Cyberstalking January 14, 2021 https://threatpost.com/florida-ethics-officer-charged-cyberstalking/163074/
Ex-SoftBank engineer held for 5G trade secret theft January 12, 2021 https://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0007059493
ThinkMarkets Sues Former Employee for Data Theft The ex-employee is now working at ThinkMarkets-rival IS Group January 15, 2021 https://www.financemagnates.com/forex/brokers/thinkmarkets-sues-former-employee-for-data-theft/
Laurentian Data Breach Class Action Approved by Court Laurentian University Data Breach January 15, 2021 https://www.mckenzielake.com/laurentian-university-data-breach/
Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Administering a Website that Catered to Criminals January 21, 2021 https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/p...uilty-administering-website-catered-criminals
ADT technician pleads guilty to spying on customer camera feeds for years January 23, 2021 https://www.cnet.com/news/adt-technician-pleads-guilty-to-spying-on-customer-camera-feeds-for-years/
Hacker Admits Targeting Major US Websites January 26, 2021 https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/hacker-admits-targeting-major-us/
"DOJ announces charges against North Korean hacker spies accused of stealing more than $1.3 billion in cash and cryptocurrency According to the indictment filed in December, the defendants work for the Reconnaissance General Bureau, North Korea’s military intelligence agency. The agency houses the hacking units known by various names, including Lazarus Group and APT38... One of the defendants, Park Jin Hyok, was also charged in a complaint about the Sony hack unsealed in September 2018... The conspiracy ranged widely, prosecutors allege, with the operatives hacking into banks and crypto exchanges, and creating a destructive ransomware virus, WannaCry, in May 2017. They are accused of developing multiple malicious cryptocurrency applications from March 2018 through at least September 2020, which provided the hackers a backdoor into victims’ computers..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...ccf0dc-7129-11eb-93be-c10813e358a2_story.html See also: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thr...f-north-koreas-cryptocurrency-malware.436513/
Resentful employee deletes 1,200 Microsoft Office 365 accounts, gets prison. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...00-microsoft-office-365-accounts-gets-prison/
"FBI arrests man who allegedly plotted to blow up Amazon data center A Texas man allegedly planning to bomb an Amazon data center in Virginia was arrested Thursday. [The suspect] attempted to purchase C-4 plastic explosives from an undercover FBI agent as part of a plan to blow up one of Amazon's data centers, the FBI alleges. [The suspect] allegedly said he wanted to 'kill of (sic) about 70% of the internet' and bring down the 'oligarchy'... [The suspect] will be charged for malicious attempt to destroy a building with an explosive..." https://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-arrests-man-who-allegedly-plotted-to-blow-up-amazon-data-center/
Californian Charged with Cyberstalking Teenage Boys April 23, 2021 https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/demirovic-alleged-cyberstalking/
US arrests alleged ‘Bitcoin Fog’ boss, who is accused of laundering millions https://www.cyberscoop.com/bitcoin-fog-arrest-roman-sterlingov/
Crypto scammer who threatened victims' families pleads guilty, faces 2-year minimum https://www.cyberscoop.com/bitcoin-scam-sim-swapping-phone-hack/
"Four Individuals Plead Guilty to RICO Conspiracy Involving “Bulletproof Hosting” for Cybercriminals Four Eastern European nationals have pleaded guilty to conspiring to engage in a Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) arising from their providing “bulletproof hosting” services between 2008 and 2015, which were used by cybercriminals to distribute malware and attack financial institutions and victims throughout the United States..." https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four...-involving-bulletproof-hosting-cybercriminals
"Chicago feds charge 22 people for using bitcoin to buy data stolen in Kmart hack The indictment says authorities seized property traceable to the offense including a Cartier watch, Prada and Ray-Ban sunglasses, cosmetics from Lancome and Estee Lauder, and purses from Coach, Michael Kors and Gucci. A federal grand jury has accused 22 people of spending more than $2 million of bitcoins to access thousands of payment card accounts stolen from Kmart in a hack... The scheme alleged in the indictment revolves around the use of payment cards including credit, debit and gift cards. It says someone identified only as “Co-Schemer A” installed malware on Kmart computers between August 2016 and April 2017 allowing that person to capture payment card data from more than 3 million cards from Kmart computers... The indictment goes on to accuse 22 individuals of purchasing data from more than 80,000 payment card accounts, including more than 56,000 accounts from Kmart, in exchange for $2.1 million of bitcoins...." https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/...-chicago-feds-charge-22-people-cryptocurrency
"US charges Latvian for helping develop the Trickbot malware The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced today that a Latvian national was charged for her alleged role as a malware developer in the Trickbot transnational cybercrime organization. Alla Witte (aka Max) was charged with 19 counts of a 47-count indictment after being arrested on February 6 in Miami, Florida... As a Trickbot malware developer, Witte wrote the code used by the malware to control, deploy, and manage payments of ransomware, the DOJ said in a press release published today..." https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...ian-for-helping-develop-the-trickbot-malware/
"ADT Technician Sentenced for Hacking Home Security Footage A home security technician was sentenced today to 52 months in federal prison for repeatedly hacking into customers’ video feeds... According to plea papers, Mr. Aviles admits that contrary to company policy, he routinely added his personal email address to customers’ “ADT Pulse” accounts, giving himself real-time access to the video feeds from their homes... Mr. Aviles took note of which homes had attractive women, then repeatedly logged into these customers’ accounts in order to view their footage for sexual gratification, he admits... Over a four and a half year period, Mr. Aviles secretly accessed roughly 200 customer accounts more than 9,600 times without their consent, he admits..." https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/adt-technician-sentenced-hacking-home-security-footage