Crime Stories for 2016

Police Request Amazon Echo Recordings For Homicide Investigation 168
Hotbed of Cybercrime Activity Tracked Down To ISP In Region Where Russia Is Invading Ukraine 70
Chicago Electronics Recycler Faked Tear-Downs, Sent Hazardous Waste To Overseas Landfills 91
Can Consumers Fight Package Thieves With Technology? 295
The FBI Is Arresting People Who Rent DDoS Botnets 212
Rogue Lawyers Made $6 Million Shaking Down Porn Pirates, Feds Say 128
The Pirate Bay, BitTorrent Websites To Be Blocked In Australia, Federal Court Rules 112
Florida Court Says Suspected Voyeur Must Reveal His iPhone Passcode To Police 184
Inside the NYPD's Attempt To Build Community Trust Through Twitter 59
The DEA Has Been Secretly Paying Transport Employees To Search Travelers' Bags 165
BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors 368
Sysadmin Gets Two Years In Prison For Sabotaging ISP 133
Crooks Need Just Six Seconds To Guess A Credit Card Number 110
Foxconn Employee Faces 10-Year Prison Sentence For Stealing 5,700 iPhones Worth $1.5 Million 45
Lawyer Sues 20-Year-Old Student Who Gave a Bad Yelp Review, Loses Badly 90
French Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Visiting Pro-ISIS Websites 414
Bitcoin Exchange Ordered To Give IRS Years of Data On Millions of Users 203
Amazon and eBay Sellers' VAT Fraud Rife Despite Crackdown 81
Ransomware Compromises San Francisco's Mass Transit System 141
New York's District Attorney: Roll Back Apple's iPhone Encryption 215
Privacy Group Sues The FBI, Demanding Details About Biometric Database Sharing 16
A $5 Tool Called PoisonTap Can Hack Your Locked Computer In One Minute 172
Amazon Takes Counterfeit Sellers To Court For First Time 62
German Police Mock 'Not Very Clever' ATM Robbers 88
'Flash Crash' Trader Pleads Guilty, Facing Up To 30 Years In Prison 94
Scammers Bite Chrome Users With Forgotten 2014 Bug 35
Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition 1066
The FBI Spent Two Years Investigating An Online Cult That Didn't Exist 134
Montreal Police Monitored iPhone of La Presse Journalist Patrick Lagace 56
Police Used Cell Tower Logs To Text 7,500 Possible Crime Witnesses 153
How Vigilante Hackers Could Stop the Internet of Things Botnet 64
Alibaba Founder To Chinese Government: Use Big Data To Stop Criminals 46
Electronic Surveillance Up 500% In DC Area Since 2011, Almost All Sealed Cases 41
US Police Consider Flying Drones Armed With Stun Guns 163
Dyn Executive Responds To Friday's DDOS Attack 77
Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones 432
Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? 361
John McAfee Thinks North Korea Hacked Dyn, and Iran Hacked the DNC 149
'Anonymous' Hacker Indicted As His Hunger Strike Continues 67
Nurses In Australia Face Punishment For Promoting Anti-Vaccination Messages Via Social Media 656
KickassTorrents Lawyer: 'Torrent Sites Do Not Violate Criminal Copyright Laws' 80
Czechs Arrest Russian Hacker Wanted By FBI 55
Spanish Police Arrest Their First Ever eBook Pirate 48
Ethiopia's State of Emergency Makes Posting To Facebook a Crime 38
Apple and Other Tech Companies Have Registered Their IP in Jamaica, Tonga, and Elsewhere For Years 42
UK Police Begins Deployment of 22,000 Police Body Cameras 65
Journalists Face Jail Time After Reporting on North Dakota Pipeline Protest 357
Accused British 'Flash Crash' Stock Trader To Be Extradited To The US 209
Verizon Believes Yahoo Email Hacking 'Material,' Could Affect Deal 14
RIAA Seizes Wrong MP3Skull Domain 49
Foreign Investors Sue Toshiba Over Accounting Scandal 17
Wells Fargo Employee Informed the Bank of Fake Customer Accounts in 2006 104
Court Rejects Massive Torrent Damages Claim, Admin Avoids Jail 60
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter Block Tool For Cops To Surveil You On Social Media 80
Second Hacker Group Targets SWIFT Users, Symantec Warns 15
UK's Chief Troll Hunter Targets Doxxing, Virtual Mobbing, and Nasty Images 100
Are Tech Firms Liable For What Their Users Post? 98
More Software Engineers Over Age 40 May Join a Lawsuit Against Google 162
Feds Convinced Police To Use License Plate-Scanning Tech At Gun Shows 277
Fake Call Centers in India Scam Americans Of Millions 212
Two 19-Year-Olds Charged With Running Phone Harassment, Hack-For-Hire Sites 36
Smartphone Reseller Cheated Customers Out of Millions, Feds Say 66
Police Complaints Drop 93 Percent After Deploying Body Cameras 332
Amazon's Kindle Unlimited Is a Victim of Its Success in Japan 48
French Banks Offer Credit Card Numbers That Change Every Hour 222
Pennsylvania's Voting Machines Are Running Windows XP 140
Saudi Arabian Teen Arrested For Online Videos With American Blogger 213
Across US, Police Officers Abuse Confidential Databases 185
California Launches Mandatory Data Collection For Police Use-of-Force 117
Hacker Who Aided ISIS Gets 20 Years In Prison 131
Cops Are Raiding Homes of Innocent People Based Only On IP Addresses 241
Uber's Terrifying 'Ghost Drivers' Are Freaking Out Passengers in China 81
Oversight Orders Reddit To Preserve Deleted Posts In Clinton Investigation 382
Federal Judge Rules Bitcoin Is Money In Case Tied To JPMorgan Hack 87
Uber Accused of Cashing In On Bomb Explosion By Jacking Rates 428
Robot Snatches Rifle From Barricaded Suspect, Ends Standoff 129
FBI Agent Posing As Journalist To Deliver Malware To Suspect Was Fine, Says DOJ 74
Alibaba Engineers Fired for Mooncake Hacking 85
10 Years in Prison For Online Pirates a Step Closer in the UK 136
Alleged Proprietors of 'DDOS For Hire' Service vDOS Arrested 63
Arrests Made After Group Hacks CIA Director's AOL Account 107
Senator Urges Colleagues to Prevent Expansion of Government Hacking 41
Researcher Gets 20 Days In Prison For Hacking State Websites As Political Stunt 85
Meet URL, the USB Porn-Sniffing Dog 299
Long TSA Delays Force Airports To Hire Private Security Contractors 260
Fugitive Arrested After Using 'Wanted' Poster As His Facebook Profile Pic 89
Florida Man Arrested For Hacking Linux Kernel Organization In 2011 37
Romanian Hacker 'Guccifer' Sentenced To 52 Months In US Prison 117
New Ransomware Poses As A Windows Update 89
US Unveils Charges Against KickassTorrents, Names Two More Defendants 110
Apple Patenting a Way To Collect Fingerprints, Photos of Thieves 90
FBI Authorized Informants To Break The Law 22,800 Times In 4 Years 106
Turkish Journalist Jailed For Terrorism Was Framed, Forensic Report Shows 103
Software Exploits Aren't Needed To Hack Most Organizations 57
New Linux Trojan Is A DDoS Tool, a Bitcoin Miner, and Web Ransomware 63
Want To Hunt Bank Robbers? There's an App For That, Says The FBI 68
Maker of Web Monitoring Software Can Be Sued 99
LinkedIn Sues 100 Individuals For Scraping User Data From the Site 112
Australian Authorities Hacked Computers in the US 75
Under Fire, US Social Security Site Changes Security Policy Again 37
One Year in Jail For Abusive Silicon Valley CEO 287
Voting Machines Can Be Easily Compromised, Symantec Demonstrates 217
Irish Court Orders Alleged Silk Road Admin To Be Extradited To US 73
US Seizure of Kim Dotcom's Assets Will Stand, Says Appeals Court 166
Bleeping Computer Countersues Maker of SpyHunter 43
France Says Fight Against Messaging Encryption Needs Worldwide Initiative 446
Kansas Couple Sues IP Mapping Firm For Turning Their Life Into a 'Digital Hell' 175
US Finds New Secret Software In VW Audi Engines, Says Report 227
Aggressive Hackers Are Targeting Rio's Olympics 71
32 States Offer Online Voting, But Experts Warn It Isn't Secure 182
Edward Snowden Is Not Dead Despite Mysterious Tweets, Says Glenn Greenwald 93
Nigerian Scammers Infect Themselves With Own Malware, Reveal New Fraud Scheme 38
Assange Says Wikileaks is 'Working On' Hacking Donald Trump's Tax Return 231
Is The US Social Security Site Still Vulnerable To Identity Theft? 46
Car Thieves Arrested After Using Laptop and Malware To Steal More Than 30 Jeeps 215
New Attack Steals SSNs, E-mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages 102
Police Asked Facebook To Deactivate Woman's Account During Deadly Standoff 447
Clerk Printed Lottery Tickets She Didn't Pay For But Didn't Break Hacking Law 110
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Keep Your Credit Card Secure? 385
Cisco Finds $34 Million Ransomware Industry 18
Russia's Rise To Cyberwar Superpower 79
Uber Doesn't Decrease Drunk Driving, Finds New Study 72
Gary Johnson: I'd Consider Pardoning Snowden, Chelsea Manning 264
Tor Project Confirms Sexual Misconduct By Developer Jacob Appelbaum 410
Bitcoin Not Money, Rules Miami Judge In Dismissing Laundering Charges 150
Yahoo Ordered to Show How It Recovered 'Deleted' Emails 80
UK Cybersecurity Executives Plead Guilty To Hacking A Rival Firm 14
Police 3D-Printed A Murder Victim's Finger To Unlock His Phone 97
Feds Seize KickassTorrents Domains and Arrest Owner In Poland 302
Uber's Investigators Admit To Lying While Digging Up Dirt On Legal Foes 57
Patriot Act Expansion Fails In The House 93
Jill Stein Pledges To Pardon Snowden and Appoint Him To Her Cabinet 177
Do You Have A Living Doppelgänger? 142
Newt Gingrich Says Visiting An ISIS Or Al Qaeda Website Should Be A Felony 406
Cybercrime Overtakes Traditional Crime In UK, Says Report 24
It Took Nearly Three Hours For France's Terror Alert App To Respond To Nice Attack 278
Emirati Man Gets 3-Month Prison Sentence Over Instagram Insult 96
Parents Upset After Their Boy Was 'Knocked Down and Run Over' By A Security Robot 255
Guccifer 2.0 Drops New Documents 106
FBI Has Collected 430,000 Iris Scans In 'Pilot Program' 32
Congress Is Trying To Expand The Patriot Act 174
Facebook Sued for $1 Billion for Alleged Use of Medium for Terror 204
Kentucky Anonymous Member Indicted Three Years After FBI Raid 176
Uber Investor Suggests Addressing Police Killings With an App 311
Researchers Discover Over 100 Tor Nodes Designed To Spy On Hidden Services 56
Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing 983
Password Sharing Is a Federal Crime, Appeals Court Rules 165
'New Way of Stealing Cars': Hacking Them With A Laptop 159
American Cities Are Installing DHS-Funded Audio Surveillance 160
Will Brexit Hurt International Cyber-Security? 197
Aaron Swartz Ebook's DRM Has Been Cracked 63
Data Can Help Fix America's Overcrowded Jails, Says White House 213
2 Million-Person Terror Database Leaked Online 165
ACLU Lawsuit Challenges Computer Fraud and Abuse Act 76
Istanbul Attack: A Grim Reminder Of Why Airports Are Easy Targets 307
Wisconsin's Prison-Sentencing Algorithm Challenged in Court 228
Religious Hacker Defaces 111 Escort Sites 161
As It Searches For Suspects, The FBI May Be Looking At You 90
IRS Gets Hacked Again, Forced To Scrap Their Entire PIN System 104
Vacationing Security Researcher Exposes Austrian ATM Skimmer 181
Why Are Hackers Increasingly Targeting the Healthcare Industry? 111
Crypto Ransomware Attacks Have Jumped 500% In The Last Year 36
Austin Is Conducting Sting Operations Against Ride-Sharing Drivers 258
From File-Sharing To Prison: The Story of a Jailed Megaupload Programmer 126
FBI Is Classifying Its Tor Browser Exploit Because 'National Security' 81
Internet Trolls Hack Popular YouTube Channel WatchMojo 32
MSI and ASUS Accused of Sending Reviewers Overpowered Graphics Cards 133
Hacker Who Stole Half-Life 2's Source Code Interviewed For New Book 192
One Million IP Addresses Used In Brute-Force Attack On A Bank 50
New Ransomware Written Entirely In JavaScript 96
New Algorithm Could Help Predict Future ISIS Attacks 120
Google Accused of Stealing Balloon Network Tech Behind Project Loon 58
FBI Says Utility Pole Surveillance Cam Locations Must Be Kept Secret 224
'Spam King' Sanford Wallace Sentenced To 2.5 Years In Prison For Facebook Phishing Scam 56
Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? 1144
How ISIS Finally Hacked the Arkansas Library Association 58
New York Thieves Wearing Apple Store T-Shirts Steal $16,000 In iPhones 120
Tesla Suspension Breakage: It's Not The Crime, It's The Coverup 271
Oklahoma State Troopers Use New Device To Seize Bank Accounts During Traffic Stops 621
CiCi's Pizza May Have Been Hacked 34
TeamViewer Denies Being Hacked, Blames Users, Introduces New Security Measures 65
UCLA Shooter Accused Victim Of Stealing His Computer Code 396
Miami Money-Laundering Case May Define Whether Bitcoin Is Really Money 121
Mugger Arrested After Victim Spots Him On Facebook's 'People You May Know' 235
California Mayors Demand Surveillance Cams On Crime-Ridden Highways 137
EFF Warns of Harsher CFAA 44
FBI Raids Dental Software Researcher Who Found Patient Records On Public Server 130
Hundreds of Drupal Sites Targeted With Fake Ransomware 51
Attackers Steal $12.7M In Massive ATM Heist 75
Ransomware Adds DDoS Attacks To Annoy More People 37
How Militarized Cops Are Zapping Rights With Stingray 105
TV Journalists Try Buying AK-47 On Dark Web, Fail 88
New Clues About Why Mt. Gox Failed 50
Real-Life RoboCop Guards Shopping Centers In California 100
Robin Hood Hacker Donates $11,000 of Stolen Bitcoin to Help Fight ISIS 66
Filmmakers Ask 'Pirate' to Take Polygraph, Backtrack When He Agrees 155
Developer Of Anonymous Tor Software Dodges FBI, Leaves US 323
Iran Is Arresting Models Who Pose Without Headscarves On Instagram 375
Malware Bank Attacks May Be Linked To Sony Pictures Hack 38
Hidden FBI Microphones Exposed In California 205
Amazon and Microsoft Directors Charged in Prostitution Sting 311
Homeland Security Cuts Causing Extreme Delays And Missed Flights 302
Police Reveal Tactics For Fighting Botnets 38
UAE Bank Suffers Massive Data Breach 34
Prisons Moving To All-Video Visitation 277
Creator of Online Money Gets 20 Years in Prison 149
Homeland Security Wants To Subpoena Techdirt Over The Identity Of A Hyperbolic Commenter 225
Meet The Company That Poached The FBI's Entire Silk Road Investigation Team 133
LAPD Hacked An iPhone 5s Before The FBI Hacked San Bernardino Terrorist's iPhone 5c 47
Hacker Guccifer Claims He Easily and Repeatedly Broke Into Hillary Clinton's Email Server 416
The Government Wants Your Fingerprint To Unlock Phones 224
Drones Being Used By Peeping Toms, The Military, And Terrorists 101
Google Helps Police With Child Porn WebCrawler 113
Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives 796
Dutch Police Seize Encrypted Communication Network With 19,000 Users 77
Child Porn Is Being Hidden on Legal Commercial Websites 92
Anders Behring Breivik, Norway Murderer, Wins Human Rights Case 491
Popular Dark Web Market Disappears, Users Migrate In Panic 217
Whistleblowers Fear Prosecution Under New European Trade Secrets Law 27
Journalist Matthew Keys Sentenced To 24-Month Prison Term For Helping Anonymous 99
FBI Offers $25K Reward For Andy Warhol Campbell's Soup Painting Heist 109
Experts Crack Petya Ransomware, Enable Hard Drive Decryption For Free 49
Sophisticated Bribe Scheme Gets Malware Onto Chinese Antivirus Whitelist 20
Every Voter In The Philippines Exposed In Massive Data Breach 28
Adobe Patches Flash Zero-Day Exploited By Magnitude Exploit Kit 69
Outdated and Vulnerable WordPress, Drupal Versions Contributed To Panama Papers Breach 155
Snowden Ridicules David Cameron For Defending 'Private' Matter of Panama Papers Leak 177
Months After Hacks, DHS Sends a Warning About Hospital Ransomware 59
'Hack The Pentagon' Bug Bounty Program Opens For Registration 36
Chinese Scammers Take Mattel To the Bank, Phishing Them For $3 Million 63
Feds Used 1789 Law To Force Apple, Google To Unlock Phones 63 Times 101
Global Majority Backs a Ban On 'Dark Net,' Poll Says 222
Virus Hits MedStar Health Hospital Network 96
Six Charged For Hacking Lottery Terminals To Spew Only Winning Tickets 44
Petya Ransomware Uses DOS-Level Lock Screen, Prevents OS Boot Up 155
1.5 Million Verizon Customer Records Put Up For Sale 26
Brussels Bombers Filmed Nuclear Researchers, Hoped To Build A "Dirty Bomb," Expert Says 230
'Flash Crash' Trader Navinder Sarao Faces US Extradition 156
Major US Carriers Open Free Calls And Texts To Brussels 58
Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead 1011
Bitcoin Trading Platform Announces Huge Downtime Following Cyber-Attack 51
Security Researcher Goes Missing After Investigating Bangladesh Bank Cyber-Heist 60
Dozens of Russian Banks Phished By Crooks Pretending To Be FinCERT 16
American Express Warns Customers About Breach -- From 2013 32
What Apple Can Learn From BlackBerry Not To Do 150
Security Firms Say Chinese Hackers Behind US Ransomware Attacks 40
AT&T Defeats Class Action In Unlimited Data Throttling Case 63
Hackers Steal Bank's Crypto Credentials, But Are Foiled By Their Own Typo 45
WhatsApp Encryption Said To Stymie Wiretap Order 56
Google Chrome Extension Caught Stealing Bitcoin From Users 28

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