Crime Stories

US Teacher Charged With Using AI To Frame Principal With Hate Speech Clip 103
Lying to Investors? Co-Founder of Startup 'HeadSpin' Gets 18-Month Prison Sentence for Fraud 28
Terraform Labs and Founder Do Kwon Found Liable In US Civil Fraud Trial 12
Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced To 25 Years in Prison 143
Nigerian Woman Faces Jail Time For Facebook Review of Tomato Sauce 72
Binance Executive Detained In Nigeria Escapes Custody 19
SWAT Team Raids Innocent Family Over Stolen AirPods, Inaccurate 'FindMy' App Tracking 164
Woman With $2.5 Billion In Bitcoin Convicted of Money Laundering 70
Sam Bankman-Fried Deserves 40-50 Years in Prison For FTX Fraud, Prosecutors Say 85
US Lost Record $12.5 Billion To Online Crime In 2023, Says FBI 33
Former Google Engineer Indicted For Stealing AI Secrets To Aid Chinese Companies 28
Man Charged With Smuggling Greenhouse Gases Into US 94
San Francisco Police Make Arrest In Waymo Chinatown Arson Case 8
Decades-Old Missing Person Mystery Solved After Relative Uploads DNA To GEDMatch 30
Ransomware Attack Hampers Prescription Drug Sales at 90% of US Pharmacies 81
The FBI Is Using Push Notifications To Catch Sexual Predators 34
SBF Asks For 5-Year Prison Sentence, Calls 100-Year Recommendation 'Grotesque' 189
Oklahoma Man Hacked US Government Site To Buy Cars At Auction For $1 38
US Man Accused of Making $1.8 Million From Listening In On Wife's Remote Work Calls 107
Zeus, IcedID Malware Kingpin Faces 40 Years In Prison 39
Wi-Fi Jamming To Knock Out Cameras Suspected In Nine Minnesota Burglaries 174
WhatsApp Image Sender Becomes First Convicted Cyber-Flasher 24
Will FTX Customers Fully Recoup Their Money? 27
Thieves Steal 200ft Tower From Alabama Radio Station 142
Inside the Underground Site Where 'Neural Networks' Churn Out Fake IDs 28
Scammer Poses As CFO in Deepfaked Meeting On Zoom, Steals $25 Million 43
Police Departments Are Turning To AI To Sift Through Unreviewed Body-Cam Footage 40
YouTube, Discord, and Lord of the Rings Led Police To a Teen Accused of a US Swatting Spree 60
Three People Indicted In $400 Million FTX Crypto Hack Conspiracy 20
Ex-CIA Software Engineer Sentenced To 40 Years For Giving Secrets To WikiLeaks 147
The Great Freight-Train Heists of the 21st Century 78
IT Consultant Fined For Daring To Expose Shoddy Security 102
Walmart's Financial Services 'Became a Fraud Magnet', Says ProPublica 83
Hans Reiser Sends a Letter From Prison 181
Crime Rings Are Trafficking in an Unlikely Treasure: Sand 53
'Stablecoins' Enabled $40 Billion In Crypto Crime Since 2022 21
eBay To Pay $3 Million Penalty For Employees Sending Live Cockroaches, Fetal Pig To Bloggers 43
Englishman Who Posed As HyperVerse CEO Says Sorry To Investors Who Lost Millions 23
A Microscopic Metal Flake Could Finally Reveal DB Cooper's Identity 75
Mexican Cartel Provided Wi-Fi To Locals - With Threat of Death If They Didn't Use It 97
Firmware Prank Causes LED Curtain In Russia To Display 'Slava Ukraini' 109
Teen GTA VI Hacker Sentenced To Indefinite Hospital Order 77
Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Sentenced To 4 Years For Securities Fraud 34
ProPublica Argues US Police 'Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras' 96
Cloud Engineer Gets 2 Years For Wiping Ex-Employer's Code Repos 121
YouTuber Who Deliberately Crashed Plane For Views Is Headed To Federal Prison 122
Several Piracy-Related Arrests Spark Fears of High-Level Crackdown In Nordic Region 37
Startup Suggests Fighting Porch Piracy with AI-Enhanced Shipment Insurance 148
North Koreans Use Fake Names, Scripts To Land Remote IT Work For Cash 60
FCC Tightens Telco Rules To Combat SIM-Swapping 21
Google Sues Men Who Weaponized DMCA Notices To Crush Competition 50
Person Linked To Scam Asks FBI for His Seized Cryptocurrency Back 46
AI-Generated Voice Deepfakes are Being Used in Scams 19
'Encryption King' Arrested In Turkey 31
Washington DC Gives Residents Free AirTags To Help Track Stolen Cars 110
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty of Fraud 135
Two Russian Nationals Charged For Hacking Taxi System At JFK Airport 48
SEC Charges SolarWinds CISO With Fraud and Cybersecurity Failures 32
How a Cellphone App Helped a California Man Retrieve His Stolen Car 82
Barcode Leads To Arrest of Texas Litterbug Behind 200 Pounds of Dumped Trash 106
California Law Limits Bitcoin ATM Transactions to $1,000 to Thwart Scammers 37
Inside a $30 Million Cash-for-Bitcoin Laundering Ring In New York 34
Scammers Try Hosting Their Malware on a Binance Network 21
Indian Authorities Raid Fake Tech Support Rings After Tipoff From Amazon and Microsoft 25
Tech CEO Sentenced To 5 Years in IP Address Scheme 58
New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check To Buy a 3D Printer 204
How Two Florida Men Scammed 'Uber Eats' Out of $1 Million 51
Florida Man Could Get 10 Years For Shooting Down a Police Drone 116
Man Jailed In UK's First Treason Conviction In 40 Years Was Encouraged By AI Chatbot 21
Hundreds of US Schools Hit By Potentially Organized Swatting Hoaxes, Report Says 60
Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes 62
Federal Judge Gives Man 8-Year Sentence For Running Unlicensed Bitcoin Exchange 78
UK Passport Images Database Could Be Used To Catch Shoplifters 67
YouTuber Jailed For Large-Scale Cable Piracy Scheme 20
FBI Indicts Goldman Sachs Analyst Who Tried Using Xbox Chat for Insider Trading 38
Three Arrows Capital Co-Founder Zhu Apprehended, Liquidator Says 4
JPEX Appears To Be a $178 Million Fraud 45
New York City Deploys 420-Pound RoboCop to Patrol Subway Station 82
Did Teens Ally with Ransomware Gangs for MGM Breach? 24
Sysadmin, Spouse Admit To Part in 'Massive' Pirated Avaya Licenses Scam 83
The International Criminal Court In The Hague Says It Has Been Hacked 50
Las Vegas Still Struggling to Recover from Last Sunday's Cyberattack 46
Swedish Criminal Gangs Using Fake Spotify Streams To Launder Money 67
'Cryptoqueen' Sidekick Gets 20 Years For $4 Billion Ponzi 32
Roblox Cancelled Awards Presentation Due To Security Incident 77
Cheating in Tennis: How Cellphone Records Revealed a Massive Match-Fixing Ring 37
The International Criminal Court Will Now Prosecute Cyberwar Crimes 32
Ex-FTX Executive Ryan Salame To Forfeit $1.5 Billion As Part of Guilty Plea 21
Florida Man Charged Over Failed Attempt To Cross Atlantic In Giant 'Hamster Wheel' 189
Wanted: Skilled Workers To Combat the Rise in Cyber Crime 82
Ignored by Police, Two Women Took Down Their Cyber-Harasser Themselves 104
'Starfield' Fan Banned From Subreddit For Narcing On Leaker To Cops 127
NYPD To Deploy Drones To Monitor Backyard Parties This Holiday Weekend 120
Saudi Man Receives Death Penalty For Posts Online 159
Hundreds of Thousands Trafficked To Work as Online Scammers in Southeast Asia, Says UN Report 18
Kias and Hyundais Keep Getting Stolen By the Thousands and Cities Are Suing 264
UK Police Force Loses 3 Years of Body Camera Footage 61
Tornado Cash Founders Charged With Laundering More Than $1 Billion 36
Teenagers Convicted of Grand Theft Auto, Nvidia Lapsus$ Hacks in the UK 35
Thousands of Crypto Scammers are Enslaved by Human-Trafficking Gangsters, Says Bloomberg Reporter 100
Bomb Threat Causes Mass Evacuation at DEF CON Hacking Convention 45
The Untold History of Today's Russian-Speaking Hackers 22
'Bulletproof' Web Site Hosting Ransomware Finally Seized, Founder Indicted 16
FTX's Bankman-Fried Headed For Jail After Judge Revokes Bail 59
Serial Murders Have Dwindled, Thanks To a Cautious Citizenry and Improved Technology 184
Razzlekhan and Husband Guilty of Bitcoin Launder 45
AI Watches Millions of Cars and Tells Cops if You Might Be a Criminal 155
Teenagers Have Bought 'Ghost Guns' Online, Sometimes with Deadly Consequences 462
Alex Mashinsky, Ex-CEO of Bankrupt Celsius, Arrested 21
Silk Road's Second-in-Command Gets 20 Years in Prison 39
Elizabeth Holmes' Prison Sentence Was Quietly Reduced By Two Years 156
22-Year-Old Gamer Sentenced in France for 2020 Swatting of Ubisoft's Montreal Office 50
Man Who Tried To Kill Queen With Crossbow Encouraged By AI Chatbot, Prosecutors Say 65
Should UK Stores Use Facial Recognition Tech to Fight Shoplifting? 109
FBI Forms National Database To Track and Prevent 'Swatting' 71
Twitter Hacker Who Turned Celebrity Accounts Into Crypto Shills Gets Prison Sentence 14
61-Year-Old Shot, Killed After Tracking Stolen Vehicle With Apple AirTag 236
US Seeks 70-Month Prison Sentence For YouTube Content ID Scammer 47
LexisNexis Is Selling Your Personal Data To ICE So It Can Try To Predict Crimes 43
Ted Kaczynski, Known as the 'Unabomber,' has Died in Prison at Age 81 126
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Begins 11-Year Prison Sentence 77
Men Behind UK's Largest Pirate Service Jailed For 30+ Years 52
'How the 35-year-old Weed Smoker Behind 10 Million Scam Calls Made His Fortune' 58
Court Orders Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes To Go To Prison 107
Re-Victimization From Police-Auctioned Cell Phones 31
YouTuber Who Deliberately Crashed Airplane For Views Admits To Obstructing Federal Investigation 68
Inside the Italian Mafia's Encrypted Phone of Choice 75
Ex-Ubiquiti Engineer Behind 'Breathtaking' Data Theft Gets 6-Year Prison Term 22
Former Coinbase Product Manager Gets Two Years For Insider Trading 16
SBF Asks Court To Dismiss Most Criminal Charges Against Him 63
Elizabeth Holmes Speaks 161
NYPD Urges Citizens To Buy AirTags To Fight Surge In Car Thefts 115
Former Apple Employee Must Repay $19 Million After Defrauding the Company 19
Terra Co-founder Daniel Shin Charged With Fraud in South Korea 4
Argentina's 'Generacion Zoe' Promised Financial and Spirtual Development. Was it a Ponzi Scheme? 53
Autonomy Founder Mike Lynch Loses Appeal Against Extradition To US 24
Nintendo 'Hacker' Gary Bowser Released From Federal Prison 73
A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America 97
Tech Executive Arrested In San Francisco Killing of Cash App Creator 100
The NYPD Is Bringing Back Its Robot Dog 54
Sam Bankman-Fried Declared Alameda 'Unauditable,' New Report Shows 61
Thieves Tunnel Through Coffee Shop Wall To Steal $500,000 In iPhones From Washington Apple Store 48
US Treasury Warns DeFi Is Used by North Korea, Scammers To Launder Dirty Money 36
FBI Seizes Bot Shop 'Genesis Market' 8
Vandals Cut 2,000 Fiber Optic Cables in Connecticut, Knocking 16,000 Offline 118
Truck Thief Gunned Down by Owner After AirTag Gives Away Location 497
Scammers are Tricking Instagram Into Banning Influencers 53
German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host 'FlyHosting' 5
China Shuts Down Major Manga Piracy Site Following Complaint From Japan 12
SBF Charged With Paying $40 Million Bribe 48
The Tinder Car Heist and the Plot For Revenge 30
Terraform Labs Founder Do Kwon Arrested In Montenegro 20
Indian Officials Cut Internet For 27 Million People Amid Search For Fugitive 84
Dark Web 'BreachForums' Operator Charged With Computer Crime 16
Two US Men Charged In 2022 Hacking of DEA Portal 11
Teens Are Stealing More Cars. They Learn How on Social Media. 99
Does IceFire Ransomware Portend a Broader Shift From Windows to Linux? 28
People Were Unwittingly Implanted With Fake Devices In Medical Scam, FBI Alleges 55
YouTuber Sentenced To Over 5 Years and Ordered To Forfeit $30 Million in Large-Scale Cable Piracy Case 72
Sam Bankman-Fried is Under House Arrest - at Stanford. Students are Fascinated 50
BitTorrent Seedbox Provider Handed Criminal Conviction Over Users' Piracy 25
FTX Ex-Engineering Chief Nishad Singh Pleads Guilty To Criminal Charges 19
Ransomware Attacks, Payments Declined In 2022: Report 12
Thieves Spy on iPhone Owners' Passcodes, Then Steal Their Phones and Money 84
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Hit With Four New Criminal Charges 45
Crypto Mining Operation Found In School Crawl Space 52
US, UK Sanction 7 Men Tied To Trickbot Hacking Group 5
UK Proposes Making the Sale and Possession of Encrypted Phones Illegal 61
Ex-Coinbase Manager Pleads Guilty in Crypto-Related First Insider Trading Case 7
Finland's Most-Wanted Hacker Nabbed In France 17
After Cracking Another 'Secure' Messaging App, European Police Arrest 42 38
Former Ubiquiti Employee Pleads Guilty To Attempted Extortion Scheme 15
'Pig-Butchering' Scam Apps Sneak Into Apple's App Store and Google Play 44
Security Researchers Breached Server of Russia's 'Black Basta' Ransomware Gang 9
Boeing Pleads Not Guilty To Fraud In Criminal Case Over Deadly 737 Max Crashes 42
How OneCoin's 'Cryptoqueen' Scammed Investors Out of $4 Billion 64
Founder and Majority Owner of Bitzlato, a Cryptocurrency Exchange, Charged with Unlicensed Money Transmitting 31
Police Complaint Removes Pirate Bay Proxy Portal From GitHub 32
'Search Everyone First?' Lawyers Challenge Use of Warrants to Find Google Searchers 125
UK Could Jail Social Media Bosses Who Breach Child Safety Rules 55
JP Morgan Says Startup Founder Used Millions Of Fake Customers To Dupe It Into An Acquisition 54
The First Insider Trading Case Involving Cryptocurrency 13
San Jose Police Announce Three Stolen Vehicles Recovered Using Automatic License Plate Reader 114
A $402K GoFundMe Scam Leads to a Three-Year Prison Term 52
Two Washington Men Charged In Four Substation Attacks on Christmas That Cut Power 128
New York Sues Celsius Network Founder Mashinsky, Alleges Fraud 11
Sam Bankman-Fried Pleads Not Guilty To Federal Fraud Charges In New York 56
Software Engineer Charged For Theft Inspired By the Movie 'Office Space' 99
FTX Diverted $200 Million of Customer Money For Two Venture Deals, SEC Says 26
US Charges Fraud in Mango Crypto Manipulation Case 6
Lawyer Fees Mount in Crypto Bankruptcies 36
Americans Duped Into Losing $10 Billion By Illegal Indian Call Centres in 2022 159
Six Arrested After Manipulating Gas Station Pumps To Steal 30,000 Gallons of Gas 72
Alameda's Caroline Ellison, FTX's Gary Wang Plead Guilty To DOJ Fraud Charges 21
FTX Founder Bankman-Fried To Be Released on a $250 Million Bond Package While He Awaits Trial 46
Sam Bankman-Fried's Extradition Approved by Judge 27
OneCoin Co-Founder Pleads Guilty To $4 Billion Fraud 31
Swatters Used Ring Cameras To Livestream Attacks, Taunt Police, Prosecutors Say 98
UK Govt: Netflix Password Sharing Is Illegal and Potentially Criminal Fraud 70
How Scammers Took a Winnipeg Town For $430K Using Bitcoin 37
How an Unlikely Subpoena to Google Helped Solve a Complex International Missing Person Case 46
US Authorities Charge 8 Social Media Influencers In Securities Fraud Scheme 25
Secret Software Change Allowed FTX To Use Client Money 62
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested 171
UK Arrests Five For Selling 'Dodgy' Point of Sale Software 23
FCC Orders Telecoms To Block Scammers Targeting Student Loan Forgiveness Seekers 20
Former Theranos COO Sunny Balwani Sentenced To Nearly 13 Years In Prison 73
Scammers Are Scamming Other Scammers Out of Millions of Dollars 34
Chinese Hackers Stole Millions Worth of US COVID Relief Money, Secret Service Says 28
Torrent Site User Who Transferred 120TB of Pirated Content Avoids Prison 45
Police Tracked Traffic of All National ISPs To Catch Pirate IPTV Users 68
Feds Arrest Russians Accused of Running the Largest Pirated E-Book Library 73
Italy Outlaws Facial Recognition Tech, Except To Fight Crime 24
Prosecutors Seek 15-Year Prison Sentence for Theranos' Elizabeth Homes, $800M Restitution 112
After Ransomware Gang Releases Sensitive Medical Data, Australia Vows Consequences 58
FTX Crypto Wallets See Mysterious Late-Night Outflows Totalling More than $380M 59
Police Use DNA Phenotyping To Limit Pool of Suspects To 15,000 50
US Attorney Announces $3.36 Billion Crypto Seizure And Conviction In Connection With Silk Road Dark Web Fraud 58
'The Disturbing Rise of Amateur Predator-Hunting Stings' 228
Domains for Z-Library eBook Site Apparently Seized By US Department of Justice 63
The Execs Behind the MoviePass Debacle Are Now Facing Criminal Charges 19
The NYPD Joins Amazon's Ring Neighbors Surveillance Network 26
Could Data Destruction + Exfiltration Replace Ransomware? 40
Huawei Investigation Was Targeted by Chinese Spies, US Alleges 27
Interpol Launches 'First-Ever Metaverse' Designed For Global Law Enforcement 19
Hacker Jailed For Stealing Ed Sheeran's Unreleased Music 28
$3 Billion In Cryptocurrency Stolen This Year. So Far. 59
Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Found Guilty of Fraud 23
Prison Inmate Accused of Orchestrating $11 Million Fraud Using Cell Cellphone 75
FBI Warns About Counterfeit Batteries 63
Ransomware Attack Delays Patient Care at Several Hospitals Across the US 30
How 'MythBusters' Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence 127
Former Uber Exec Joe Sullivan Found Guilty of Concealing 2016 Data Breach 10
Fraud, Scam Cases Increasing on P2P Payment Service Zelle, Senate Report Finds 54
NSA Employee Leaked Classified Cyber Intel, Charged With Espionage 69
Oracle Pays $23 Million To SEC To Settle Bribery Charges 17
Interpol Issues Red Notice For Terra Founder Do Kwon 29
Hackathon Finds Dozens of Ukrainian Refugees Trafficked Online 50
Accused Russian RSOCKS Botmaster Arrested, Requests Extradition To US 42
UK Police Arrest Alleged 'GTA VI' Hacker 20
23-Year-Old 'Crypto King' Has Luxury Cars Seized After $35 Million of Investor Money Vanishes 49
Charter Must Pay $1.1 Billion After Cable Technician Murdered Customer 121
Judge Overturns Murder Conviction of Adnan Syed of 'Serial' Podcast 16
South Korean Prosecutors Say Do Kwon 'Obviously on the Run', Ask Interpol To Issue Red Notice 10
GPS Jammers Are Being Used to Hijack Trucks and Down Drones 83
Serial Thief Steals Thousands Using Cellphones (and Credit Cards) from Gym Locker Rooms 71
South Korea Issues Arrest Warrant for Do Kwon 16
Woman Whose Rape Kit DNA Led To Her Arrest Sues San Francisco 188
Coinbase Exec's Brother Pleads Guilty In Crypto Insider Trading Case 16
A Quarter of Healthcare Orgs Say Ransomware Attacks Result In Patient Deaths 61

Page: 1 2 →

8 Catfish = 1 Octo-puss