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John McAfee Indicted for ICO Manipulation, Securities Fraud
Today, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney, announced the unsealing of a seven count indictment charging John David McAfee, founder of McAfee, and Jimmy ...
Security Boulevard
Inside the DoJ’s GRU Indictments for Cyber Meddling
For the third time in the past two years, the United States has indicted intelligence officers associated with Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), the military intelligence entity of the General Staff of ...
Security Boulevard
Tennessee Man Sentenced to 17 Years in Federal Prison for Identity Theft and Fraud
Alina Bizga | | credit card fraud, Digital Privacy, DOJ, Fraud, Identity Theft, impersonation, Industry News, mail theft
James Jackson, a 58-year-old resident of Memphis, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for 13 counts of mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, access device fraud and mail theft ...
Member of ‘The Dark Overlord’ Hacking Grouop Pleads Guilty, Gets Five Years Behind Bars
The U.S. Department of Justice this week announced that a United Kingdom national by the name of Nathan Wyatt pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit aggravated identity theft and computer fraud, and ...
US DOJ Charges Three Young Men for Alleged Roles in July Twitter Hack
Last week, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) charged three men for their alleged roles in one of the largest Twitter breaches in history, which led to the hijacking of 130 high-profile ...
Chinese Hacking Campaign Exposed, BadPower Fast Charger Attack, Instacart Data Leak
Tom Eston | | BadPower, Chinese, coronavirus, COVID-19, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data leak, Digital Privacy, DOJ, Episodes, FBI, Hackers, Instacart, Podcast, Privacy, Weekly Edition
In episode 131 for July 27th 2020: The FBI charges two Chinese hackers for one of the largest Chinese directed hacking campaigns ever discovered, how the BadPower fast charger attack could melt ...
Two Chinese Hackers Face 40 Years in Prison for Hacking Spree on Global Organizations, Including COVID-19 Researchers
Filip Truta | | chinese hacker, Chinese hackers, covid, COVID-19, covid-19 vaccine, Data breach, DOJ, Dong Jiazhi, FBI, hacker, Industry News, Li Xiaoyu, pharma
US authorities have charged two Chinese hackers for allegedly hacking into the systems of hundreds of companies, governments and individual dissidents, as well as firms developing COVID-19 vaccines, testing technology, and treatments, ...
Kazakh Hacker Known as ‘fxmsp’ Faces 45 Years Behind Bars
A prolific Kazakh hacker known as ”fxmsp” has been charged with several US federal crimes for allegedly hacking the computer networks of a broad array of entities, including businesses, educational institutions, and ...
Child Identity Thief Receives 259 Months in Federal Prison after Running a $3.3 Million Scheme
Alina Bizga | | child identity theft, conviction report, Digital Privacy, DOJ, Fraud, fraud scheme, Identity Theft, Industry News
U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner, sentenced 50-year-old Turhan Lemont Armstrong to more than 21 years in federal prison yesterday for running a $3.3 million credit card, loan and real estate fraud ...
Man Accused of Selling Personal Information of 65,000 UPMC Employees Arrested in Michigan
Alina Bizga | | dark web marketplace, DOJ, DOJ arrest, Industry News, Justin Sean Johnson, personal identifiable information, tax return fraud, UPMC
Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that the individual who allegedly breached the human resource database of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in 2014 was arrested in Michigan. In ...