Crime Stories for 2015

Tech Companies Face Criminal Charges If They Notify Users of UK Government Spying 152
European Payment Card Protocols Wide Open To Fraud 38
How a Young IRS Agent Identified the Man Behind Silk Road 163
Justice Department Shuts Down Huge Asset Forfeiture Program 232
Hyatt Hotels Payment-Processing Systems Hit By Malware 32
Man Arrested For Hacking 130 Celebrities 82
Investigation Into Security Director Who Hacked the Lottery Expands 167
Software Error Releases Up To 3,200 Inmates Early 211
Drug Case In Ireland Has Fingerprints of Carnegie Mellon's Attack On Tor 72
Currency Exchange Website Accused of Cyber Terrorism By Venezuelan Government 104
Pre-Crime in the UK: Businesses Crowdsource a Watch List 162
"Most Hated Man In America" Martin Shkreli Arrested On Suspicion of Fraud 245
Go To Jail For Visiting a Web Site? Top Law Prof Talks Up the Idea 563
"Credible" Bomb Threat Closes, Evacuates All Los Angeles Public Schools 241
21-Year-Old British Man Arrested In Connection With VTech Hack 53
Bangladesh Extends Social Media Ban, Blocking Twitter and Skype 44
Vandals Deface Facebook's Hamburg Offices 116
DHS Deployed Plane Above San Bernardino To Scoop Up All Phone Calls After Attack 147
FBI Admits It Uses Stingrays, Zero-Day Exploits 79
Ex-US State Dept. Worker Pleads Guilty To Extensive Sextortion Case 60
UK's National Crime Agency Publishes Crazy Cyber-Crime Warning Signs 151
Cybercriminals Learning To Filter Out Undercover Cops 63
First Ever EU Rules On Cybersecurity 21
Spotting And Culling Terrorist Groups On Social Media: Pipe Dream, or Possibility? 69
Senators: Has Uncle Sam Paid Off Ransomware Criminals? 53
US Cyber Criminal Underground a Shopping Free-For-All 81
California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror 676
Court: 'Repugnant' Online Discussions Aren't Thoughtcrime 155
Keep Two Bank Accounts To Beat Cyber Attacks, Says Bank of England Adviser 172
After Demanding $3 Million Ransom, Hacker Dumps Massive Customer Financial Data 124
Scammy Tech Support Sites Now Serving Up Ransomware 43
DOJ Cracking Down On Profit-Driven Policing, Audit Looks At How Far It's Spread 210
Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 1134
Los Angeles Flirts With Pre-Crime 390
Phishing Blast Uses Dropbox To Target Hong Kong Journalists 12
US Marshals Jump Into 'Cyber Monday' Mania 63
Rikers Inmates Learn How To Code Without Internet Access 173
How Bad of a World Are We Really Living In Right Now? 210
DecryptorMax/CryptInfinite Ransomware Decrypted, No Need To Pay Ransom 49
France Using Emergency Powers To Prevent Climate Change Protests 248
UK Prisons To Crack Down On Inmate Internet and Mobile Phone Use 70
Czech Judge Cuts Deal With Software Pirate: Get 200K YouTube Views Or Pay Huge Fine 95
Even the Dumbest Ransomware Is Almost Unremovable On Smart TVs 151
High Level Coding Language Used To Create New POS Malware 94
Patreon Users Threatened By Ashley Madison Scammers 76
Fake Bomb Detector, Blamed For Hundreds of Deaths, Is Still In Use 152
Australian State Bans Possession of Blueprints For 3D Printing Firearms 313
How Anonymous' War With Isis Is Actually Harming Counter-Terrorism 393
FTC Amends Telemarketing Rule To Ban Payment Methods Used By Scammers 48
Chicago Sends More Than 100,000 "Bogus" Camera-Based Speeding Tickets 200
The War On Campus Sexual Assault Goes Digital 399
DoJ Going After Makers of Dietary Supplement 161
NYT Quietly Pulls Article Blaming Encryption In Paris Attacks 259
After Paris, ISIS Moves Propaganda Machine To Darknet 184
Anonymous Vows Revenge For ISIS Paris Attacks 488
Police Body Cameras Come With Pre-Installed Malware 100
Belgian Home Affairs Minister: Terrorists Communicate Via PlayStation 4 202
Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 728
Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages 965
Laser Strikes On Aircraft Increasing In Frequency 161
New Ransomware Business Cashing In On CryptoLocker's Name 62
Prison Hack Shows Attorney-Client Privilege Violation 190
Head of Indonesia's Anti-Drug Agency Proposes Using Crocodiles To Guard Prisons 83
Justice Officials Fear Nation's Biggest Wiretap Operation May Not Be Legal 118
Webmail Services Struggling Against DDoS Attacks 90
Massive Hacking Ring Stole Data From 100 Million Bank Customers 38
The Dark Net Drug Market That Survived Ukraine's Civil War 15
ProtonMail Restores Services After Epic DDoS Attacks 57
The UK Will Police the Dark Web With a New Task Force 56
The Sophisticated Business of Today's Most Nasty Phishing Attacks 38
Comcast Resets Nearly 200,000 Passwords After Customer List Goes On Sale 43
Hackers Who Hit CIA Director Break Into Law Enforcement Tools 35
TalkTalk Hack: 4% of Customers' Data Accessed In Cyber Security Breach 25
Federal Prison System Wants Anti-Drone Technology 156
App To Hold Police Instantly Accountable In Stop and Search 167
UK Police Make Third Arrest Over TalkTalk Cyber Attack 61
Crime Lab Scandals Just Keep Getting Worse 245
CoinVault and Bitcryptor Ransomware Victims Can Now Recover Their Files For Free 32
Chinese Hackers Targeted Insurer To Learn About US Healthcare 157
Drone Carrying Drugs, Hacksaw Blades Crashes In Oklahoma Prison 123
15-Year-Old Boy Arrested In Connection With TalkTalk Hack 100
FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police To Rise In Violent Crime 372
Criminals Hacked Chip-and-PIN System By Perfecting Point-of-Sale Attack 145
GA Tech Students Use Cell Phone Pings To Find Missing Person 127
Feds Looking Into Reports CIA Director's Email Was Hacked 100
Another 'StarCraft' Cheating Scandal Rocks Korea 95
Beware: FBI, Other Agencies Might Go After Your Voluntary DNA Records 132
Ukrainian Hacker Who Targeted Brian Krebs Extradited To US 81
German Police Warn Parents To Stop Posting Photos of Kids On Facebook 143
FBI and Join UK Against Forces Against Spread of Dridex Banking Malware 70
US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis 822
Tesla: Journalists Trespassed At Gigafactory, Assaulted Employees 328
China Arrests Hackers At Behest of US Government 74
Source Code On Trial In DNA Matching Case 117
Former Reuters Media Editor Found Guilty of Helping Anonymous Hack Into LA Times 36
Prison Debate Team Beats Harvard's National Title Winners 191
4 Calif. Students Arrested For Alleged Mass-Killing Plot 452
Experian Breached, 15 Million T-Mobile Customer's Data Exposed 161
Patreon Hacked, Personal Data Accessed 79
Legal Loophole Offers Volkswagen Criminal Immunity 323
Citadel Botnet Operator Gets 4.5 Years In Prison 42
How the FBI Hacks Around Encryption 91
Study: $1.8 Billion In Reshipping Fraud With Stolen Cards Each Year 139
Curbing the For-Profit Cybercrime Food Chain 19
Police Program Aims to Pinpoint Those Most Likely to Commit Crimes 244
'RipSec' Goes To Hollywood: How the iCloud Celeb Hack Happened 28
OPM Says 5.6 million Fingerprints Stolen In Cyberattack 93
Morgan Stanley Employee Pleads Guilty In Data Breach Case 43
Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Operator Pleads Guilty To $150M Fraud 114
UK Man Gets Britain's First-Ever Conviction For Illegal Drone Use 77
Some Trump Donors Get Fleeced By 3rd-Party Payment System 113
AT&T Says Malware Secretly Unlocked Hundreds of Thousands of Phones 123
Tracking a Bluetooth ATM Skimming Gang In Mexico 44
Bitcoin Trader Agrees To Work For Police In Plea Agreement 111
AT&T Offers $250k Reward To Find the California Fiber-Optic Ripper 145
Mt. Gox CEO Charged With Stealing $2.7 Million 99
Sharebeast, the Largest US-based Filesharing Service, Has Its Domain Seized 122
University Employees Suspended Due To Guest Worker Scandal 209
Hackers' Latest Targets: Google's Webmaster Tools 19
Bitcoin Extortion Group DD4BC Now Targeting Financial Services 70
Four Year Sentence For Running Piracy Streaming Site 235
Proposed MAC Sniffing Dongle Intended To Help Recover Stolen Electronics 120
Four Men Arrested Over Million-Dollar MacBook Heist 100
US Government's Pirate Movie Bootlegger Gets 24 Months Probation 83
Science Teacher Arrested After Crashing Drone At US Open 179
14-Year-Old Boy Placed On Police Register After Sending Naked Picture To Classmate 261
Smartphone Malware Planted In Popular Apps Pre-sale 42
Secret Service Agent Pleads Guilty In Bitcoin Theft 82
Six UK Teens Arrested For Being "Customers" of Lizard Squad's DDoS Service 95
The Coming Terrorist Threat From Autonomous Vehicles 214
Harshest Penalty for Alleged Rapist Was For Using a Computer To Arrange Contact With Teen 265
Inside the Booming, Unhinged, and Dangerous Malvertising Menace 259
North Dakota Legalizes "Less Than Lethal" Weapon-Equipped Police Drones 180
2 Arrested In Plot To Fly Contraband Into Prison With Drone 118
Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims 706
In Baltimore and Elsewhere, Police Use Stingrays For Petty Crimes 213
Two US Marines Foil Terrorist Attack On Train In France 468
More Ashley Madison Files Published 301
Two Arrests In Denmark For Spreading Information About Popcorn Time 244
US No-Fly List Uses 'Predictive Judgement' Instead of Hard Evidence 264
Uber Lowers Drunk Driving Arrests In San Francisco Dramatically 204
Police Training Lacks Scientific Input 277
The Network Is Hostile 124
Legal Scholars Warn Against 10 Year Prison For Online Pirates 168
SAP Paid Bribes To Panamanian Officials 72
Time Runs Out On Sweden's Sexual Assault Charges Against Julian Assange 226
US Busts Insider Trading Hackers 113
Prosecutors Op-Ed: Phone Encryption Blocks Justice 392
New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds 664
Google, Facebook and Twitter To Block "Hash Lists" of Child Abuse 177
Stingray-Like Device Enables Blackmail In S. Africa 50
Many Australians Forced To Pay For "Unbreakable" Cryptolocker Ransomware 148
2.4 Million Customer's Records Stolen From Carphone Warehouse 51
Finnish Police: If You See Uber Car, Call 911 330
Tech Firm Ubiquiti Suffers $46M Cyberheist 54
Fourth Bangladeshi Blogger Murdered 147
French Killers Inspired By Breaking Bad TV Show 182
At Black Hat: Square Reader To Credit Card Skimmer In 10 Minutes 62
Drone Drops Drugs Onto Ohio Prison Yard 214
India Blocks Over 800 Adult Websites 205
Girls Catfish ISIS On Social Media For Travel Money 238
Hitchhiking Robot's Cross-Country Trip Ends In Philadelphia 224
Japanese Police Arrest Mount Gox CEO Mark Karpeles 104
Your Stolen Identity Goes For $20 On the Internet Black Market 57
An Interview With Hacking Team's CEO 80
"Breaking Bad" At the National Institute of Standards and Technology 98
Ex-Lottery Worker Convicted of Programming System To Win $14M 217
FTC Accuses LifeLock of False Advertising Again 54
Internet Dating Scams Target Older American Women 176
UK Government Proposes 10-Year Copyright Infringement Jail Term 274
FBI, International Law Units Smash Infamous Hacker Bazaar Darkode 56
Man Arrested After Charging iPhone On London Overground Train 674
Vancouver Area Teen Sentenced To 16 Months For Swatting 331
Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments 431
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Ongoing Suspected Identity Theft? 213
Technology and the End of Lying 339
Finnish Teen Convicted of 50,000 'Hacks,' Receives Suspended Sentence 108
The Mob's IT Department 104
Eric Holder Says DoJ Could Strike Deal With Snowden; Current AG Takes Hard Line 194
Judge Dismisses Second Conviction of Ex-Goldman Sachs Coder 46
In Response to Open Letter, France Rejects Asylum For Julian Assange 146
Japanese Court Orders Google To Delete Past Reports Of Man's Molestation Arrest 271
Trolls No Longer Welcome In New Zealand 270
Cameron Asserts UK Gov't Will Leave No "Safe Space" For Private Communications 260
San Francisco Fiber Optic Cable Cutter Strikes Again 198
Interviews: Brian Krebs Answers Your Questions 33
Uber France Leaders Arrested For Running Illegal Taxi Company 334
After Protest, France Cracks Down On Uber 177
Building the Face of a Criminal From DNA 59
Dallas Police Falsely Credit TrapWire System For Arrests 31
Security Oversights and Complacency Set the Stage For Killers' Escape 80
86.2 Million Phone Scam Calls Delivered Each Month In the US 193
E-Detective Spy Tool Used By Police and Governments Has Major Security Holes 64
Interviews: Ask Brian Krebs About Security and Cybercrime 53
Baseball Team Hacks Another Team's Networks, FBI Investigates 105
FBI Investigating Series of Fiber Cuts In San Francisco Bay Area 168
Malware Attacks Give Criminals 1,425% Return On Investment 124
US Teen Pleads Guilty To Teaching ISIS About Bitcoin Via Twitter 312
Amazon Publishes Opaque Transparency Report 22
49 Suspected Members of Cybercriminal Group Arrested In Europe 23
Prenda Gets Hit Hard With Contempt Sanctions For Lying To Court 75
Stormtrooper Arrested 535
Intel Security Scares Ransomware Script Kiddie Out of Business 117
Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content 408
US Prosecutors Say Clearing Browser Data Can Be Obstruction of Justice 308
Professional Russian Trolling Exposed 276
Indicted Ex-FIFA Executive Cites Onion Article In Rant Slamming US 194
Ransomware Creator Apologizes For "Sleeper" Attack, Releases Decryption Keys 45
Scientists Study Crime In Progress In a VR Simulated Environment 80
Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced To Life In Prison 363
Feds Bust a Dark-Web Counterfeit Coupon Kingpin 90
Murder Accusations Hang Over Silk Road Boss Ulbricht's Sentencing 82
Attackers Use Email Spam To Infect Point-of-Sale Terminals 85
San Bernardino Sheriff Has Used Stingray Over 300 Times With No Warrant 104
'Prisonized' Neighborhoods Make Recidivism More Likely 164
DNA On Pizza Crust Leads To Quadruple Murder Suspect 184
Stanford Researcher Finds Little To Love In Would-Be Hacker Marketplace 75
FBI: Social Media, Virtual Currency Fraud Becoming a Huge Problem 39
US Levels Espionage Charges Against 6 Chinese Nationals 100
Swedish Court Orders Seizure of Pirate Bay Domains 55
UK Criminals Use Drones To Case Burglary Prospects 71
Silk Road's Leader Paid a Doctor To Help Keep Customers Safe 110
Baton Bob Receives $20,000 Settlement For Coerced Facebook Post 201
Cocaine Use Can Now Be Tested In Fingerprints Using Ambient Mass Spectrometry 143
GCHQ Officials Given Immunity From Hacking Charges 118
FBI Alleges Security Researcher Tampered With a Plane's Flight Control Systems 190
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty In Boston Marathon Bombing 649
FCC May Stop 911 Access For NSI Phones 211
Hackers Using Starbucks Gift Cards To Access Credit Cards 124
US Passport Agency Contractor Stole Applicants' Data To Steal Their Identities 45
Third Bangladeshi Blogger Murdered In As Many Months 284
SEC Charges ITT Educational Services With Fraud 85
Verizon, Sprint Agree To Pay Combined $158 Million Over Cramming Charges 66
Anonymous Accused of Running a Botnet Using Thousands of Hacked Home Routers 52
British Pilots: Poll Data Says Public Wants Strict Rules For Drones 110
How To Set Up a Pirate EBook Store In Google Play Books 90
Interactive Map Exposes the World's Most Murderous Places 187
28-Year-Old Businessman Accused of Stealing $1 Billion From Moldova 133
No Justice For Victims of Identity Theft 190
What To Say When the Police Tell You To Stop Filming Them 509
Woman Alerts Police of Hostage Situation Through Pizza Hut App 105
Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas 1097
VA Tech Student Arrested For Posting Perceived Threat Via Yik Yak 254
Unable To Hack Into Grading System, Georgia Student Torches Computer Lab 246
In Second Trial, Ex-Goldman Sachs Programmer Convicted of Code Theft 84
Inside the Military-Police Center That Spies On Baltimore's Rioters 203
Can Riots Be Predicted By Social Media? 141
TeslaCrypt Isn't All That Cryptic 52
Allegation: Philly Cops Leaned Suspect Over Balcony To Obtain Password 225
Gen. Petraeus To Be Sentenced To Two Years Probation and Fine 94

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