Crime Stories for 2017

Kansas Swatting Perpetrator 'SWauTistic' Interviewed on Twitter 434
Tech Bros Bought Sex Trafficking Victims Using Amazon and Microsoft Work Emails 321
Louisana Police Bust an Infamous Nigerian Email Spam Scammer 66
Call of Duty Gaming Community Points To 'Swatting' In Wichita Police Shooting 681
Two Romanians Charged With Hacking Washington DC Police Surveillance Cameras Days Before Trump's Inauguration 47
A Manager of the Exmo Bitcoin Exchange Has Been Kidnapped In Ukraine 82
UK Police's Porn-Spotting AI Keeps Mistaking Desert Pics for Nudes 144
Youbit Shuts Down Cryptocurrency Exchange After Second Hack, Files For Bankruptcy 68
Stolen Car Recovered With 11,000 More Miles -- and Lyft Stickers 119
Facial Recognition Algorithms -- Plus 1.8 Billion Photos -- Leads to 567 Arrests in China 168
DOJ Confirms Uber Is Being Investigated For Criminal Behavior 34
EFF: Accessing Publicly Available Information On the Internet Is Not a Crime 175
NiceHash Hacked, $62 Million of Bitcoin May Be Stolen 79
Was Your Name Stolen To Support Killing Net Neutrality? 128
Democrat Senators Introduce National Data Breach Notification Law 162
Uber Is Under Investigation By Multiple States Over a 2016 Data Breach 25
$31 Million In Tokens Stolen From Dollar-Pegged Cryptocurrency Tether 63
'Lazy' Hackers Exploit Microsoft RDP To Install Ransomware 72
Apple Is Served A Search Warrant To Unlock Texas Church Gunman's iPhone 450
Jack Dorsey Responds To Serial Killer Who Found His Victims Through Suicidal Twitter Posts 73
Why Google Should Be Afraid of a Missouri Republican's Google Probe 231
Federal Prosecutors Charge Man With Hiring Hackers To Sabotage Former Employer 18
Advice To Twitter Worker Who Deactivated Trump's Account: 'Get A Lawyer' 271
Equifax Investigation Clears Execs Who Dumped Stock Before Hack Announcement 155
Malware Developer Who Used Spam Botnet To Pay For College Gets No Prison Time 57
Vungle CEO Arrested For Child Rape and Attempted Murder 129
Body Camera Giant Wants Police To Collect Your Videos Too 61
'Significant' Number of Equifax Victims Already Had Info Stolen, Says IRS 105
Pizza Hut Leaks Credit Card Info On 60,000 Customers 76
Ransomware Sales On the Dark Web Spike 2,502% In 2017 23
Dutch Police Build a Pokemon Go-Style App For Hunting Wanted Criminals 62
The Case Against Biometric IDs 146
Cyberstalking Suspect Arrested After VPN Providers Shared Logs With the FBI 212
Bitcoin Transactions Lead To Arrest of Major Drug Dealer 169
US Prisons Have a Cellphone Smuggling Problem 275
Jeweler Forged Judge's Signature To Force Google To Kill Negative Reviews 52
Equifax Stock Sales Are the Focus of US Criminal Probe 48
The Teen Malware Career Of Marcus Hutchins 48
Should Congress Force Social Media To Investigate Foreign Propaganda Trolls? 266
Tasers Implicated In Far More Deaths Than We Previously Thought 191
Samsung Chief Jailed For Five Years For Bribery and Perjury 32
VW Engineer Sentenced To 40-Month Prison Term In Diesel Case 133
Iowa Computer Programmer Gets 25 Years For Lottery Scam 131
Justice Department Walks Back Demand For Information On Anti-Trump Website 130
Alleged Yahoo Hacker Will Be Extradited To The US 45
Bug In Lowe's Site Sold Goods For Free. Couple Arrested For Exploiting It 239
FBI Accepts New Evidence in 46-Year-Old D.B. Cooper Case 123
FBI Warns US Private Sector To Cut Ties With Kaspersky 173
Marcus Hutchins' Code Used In Malware May Have Come From GitHub 52
Google and ProPublica Team Up To Build a National Hate Crime Database 310
Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Pleads Not Guilty to Creating Banking Malware 71
UK Wants To Criminalize Re-Identification of Anonymized User Data 120
An Image Site Is Victimizing Countless Women and Little Can Be Done 273
Volkswagen Executive Faces Jail Time After Guilty Plea 135
Man Used DDoS Attacks On Media To Extort Them To Remove Stories 34
Do Kill Switches Deter Cellphone Theft? 97
Crooks Reused Passwords On the Dark Web So Dutch Police Took Over Their Accounts 38
US Indicts Suspected Russian 'Mastermind' of $4 Billion Bitcoin Laundering Scheme 99
Feds Crack Trump Protesters' Phones To Charge Them With Felony Rioting 465
AlphaBay Owner Used Email Address For Both AlphaBay and LinkedIn Profile. 146
Authorities Take Down Hansa Dark Web Market, Confirm AlphaBay Takedown 41
Insider Trader Arrested After He Googled 'Insider Trading,' Authorities Allege 124
Ask Slashdot: Why Do So Many of You Think Carrying Cash Is 'Dangerous'? 660
Microsoft's Default Font Is at the Center Of a Government Corruption Case 186
State Prison Officials Blame An Escape On Drones And Cellphones 223
Google Home Ends A Domestic Dispute By Calling The Police 256
Police Use Lyft As 'Trojan Horse' To Capture Suspect In Murder of Tech CEO 64
Judge Sentences Man To One Year In Prison For Hacking Smart Water Readers In Five US Cities 60
90 Cities Install A Covert Technology That Listens For Gunshots 292
Supreme Court Rules Sex Offenders Can't Be Barred From Social Media 114
Is Coinbase Closing Accounts For Paying Ransoms With Bitcoins? 202
Louisville's Fiber Internet Expansion Opposed By Koch Brothers Group 230
Facebook Exposes Employee Data To Terrorists 50
HBO, Netflix, Other Hollywood Companies Join Forces To Fight Piracy 195
Kim Dotcom Loses Latest Battle To Recover Seized Assets 58
FCC Can't Cap the Cost of Cross-State Prison Phone Calls, Court Rules 173
Opioid Dealers Embrace the Dark Web To Send Deadly Drugs by Mail 175
British PM Seeks Ban On Encryption After Terror Attack 340
Prosectors Say the Kansas Shooting of Garmin Engineers Was a Hate Crime 227
After London Attack, PM Calls For Internet Regulation To Fight Terrorists 535
When Sentencing Criminals, Should Judges Use Closed-Source Algorithms? 196
Man Sentenced To 180 Days In Jail For Refusing To Give Police His iPhone Passcode 234
Chipotle Says 'Most' of Its Restaurants Were Infected With Credit Card Stealing Malware 115
Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation 187
Chelsea Manning Set To Be Released From Prison, 28 Years Early 542
Microsoft Blasts Spy Agencies For Leaked Exploits Used By WanaDecrypt0r 324
WanaDecrypt0r Ransomware Earns Just $26,000 In Ransom Payments 222
Call Center Operator and His Cousin Steal $645,000 From UK Water Supplier 97
Police To Test App That Assesses Suspects 92
Social Media Giants Sued For Helping ISIS 135
The FBI Defends Deploying Malware From A Tor Child Porn Site 244
Cop Fakes Body Cam Footage, Prosecutors Drop Drug Charges 111
Justice Department Opens Criminal Probe Into Uber 87
Digital Economy Act: Illegal Kodi Streams Could Now Land Users In Prison For 10 Years 213
AMD and Nvidia Silicon Manufacturing Secrets Allegedly Stolen, Sold To China 103
Taser Will Use Police Body Camera Videos 'To Anticipate Criminal Activity' 76
Debian Developer Imprisoned In Russia Over Alleged Role In Riots 93
Murdered Woman's Fitbit Nails Cheating Husband 131
Wall Street IT Engineer Hacks Employer To See If He'll Be Fired 198
CIA, FBI Launch Manhunt For WikiLeaks Source 199
DOJ: Russian 'Superhacker' Gets 27 Years In Prison 50
US Prepares Charges To Seek Arrest of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange 369
Microsoft's Skype Is Most Used Messaging Service For Cyber Criminals, Study Finds 57
Researchers Find 25,000 Domains Used In Tech Support Scams 85
Investigation Finds Inmates Built Computers, Hid Them In Prison Ceiling 258
Should The FBI Have Arrested 'The Hacker Who Hacked No One'? 227
GitHub Repository Owners Targeted By Data-Stealing Malware 63
Rogue System Administrator Faces 10 Years In Prison For Shutting Down Servers, Deleting Core Files On the Day He Was Fired 237
Two Activists Who Secretly Recorded Planned Parenthood Face 15 Felony Charges 470
Indiana's Inmates Could Soon Have Access To Tablets 133
Feds: We're Pulling Data From 100 Phones Seized During Trump Inauguration 233
W3C Erects DRM As Web Standard 260
Your Hotel Room Photos Could Help Catch Sex Traffickers 151
Company's Former IT Admin Accused of Accessing Backdoor Account 700+ Times 63
Could We Eliminate Spam With DMARC? 124
Judge Grants Search Warrant For Everyone Who Searched a Crime Victim's Name On Google 101
FBI Arrests Alleged Attacker Who Tweeted Seizure-Inducing Strobe at a Writer 151
Typo In IP Address Led To an Innocent Father's Arrest For Paedophilia 227
How The FBI Used Geek Squad To Increase Secret Public Surveillance 164
A Prenda Copyright Troll Finally Pleaded Guilty 46
Alphabet's Waymo Asks Judge To Block Uber From Using Self-Driving Car Secrets 82
Samsung Group Chief Denies All Charges as 'Trial of the Century' Begins 32
Federal Criminal Probe Being Opened Into WikiLeaks' Publication of CIA Documents 236
Amazon Shares Data With Arkansas Prosecutor In Murder Case 54
FBI Dismisses Child Porn Case Rather Than Reveal Their Tor Browser Exploit 244
Local Police Departments Are Building Their Own DNA Databases 50
Samsung Chief Charged With Bribery and Embezzlement 22
Man Gets 30 Days In Jail For Drone Crash That Knocked Woman Unconscious 358
UK Police Arrest Suspect Behind Mirai Malware Attacks On Deutsche Telekom 26
Amazon Argues That Alexa Is Protected By the First Amendment in a Murder Trial 117
Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited, Rules A New Zealand Court 188
Face Recognition + Mandatory Police Body Cameras = Mass Surveillance? 110
Russia Considers Sending Snowden Back To US As a 'Gift' To Trump 294
Arby's Probes Possible Data Breach Affecting 355,000 Credit Cards 49
Police Arrest Five Men For Selling Kodi Boxes 'Fully Loaded' With Illegal Streaming Apps 105
DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches 341
US Probes Panasonic Unit For Alleged Bribery Violations 28
Police Use Pacemaker Data To Charge Homeowner With Arson, Insurance Fraud 216
Swedish Govt Mulls Tougher Punishments To Tackle Pirate Sites 70
Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report 760
Ransomware Infects a Hotel's Key System 203
Police Department Loses Years Worth of Evidence In Ransomware Incident 131
Canadian Police Identify Suspect From Remotely-Accessed Stolen Laptop 74
Russia Arrests Top Kaspersky Lab Security Researcher On Charges of Treason 84
Western Union Pays $586M Fine Over Wire Fraud Charges 115
Database Attacks Spread To CouchDB, Hadoop, and ElasticSearch Servers 67
Geek Avenges Stolen Laptop By Remotely Accessing Thief's Facebook Account 377
South Korean Court Dismisses Arrest Warrant For Samsung Chief 17
Julian Assange Will Not Hand Himself In Because Chelsea Manning's Release Won't Happen Immediately, Lawyer Says 564
Ukraine's Power Outage Was a Cyber Attack, Says Power Supplier 59
Dutch Developer Added Backdoor To Websites He Built, Phished Over 20,000 Users 123
President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence 798
Oculus Accused of Destroying Evidence, Zuckerberg To Testify In $2 Billion Lawsuit 136
Amateur Scientists Find New Clue In D.B. Cooper Case, Crowdsource Their Investigation 139
Student Hacker Faces 10 Years in Prison For Spyware That Hit 16,000 Computers 181
Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad 389
Two Triple-Screen Laptops Were Stolen From Razer's CES Booth 165
FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive On Charges Related To Dieselgate 106
Macbook Saves Man's Life During Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting 175
FBI Releases (Redacted) Documents About The San Bernardino iPhone Case 35
How A Massive India Call Center Swindled 15,000 Americans 104
New California Law Finally Makes Ransomware Illegal 128