Crime Stories for 2018

'My Airbnb Guests Threw a New Year's Party For 300 People' 374
JD.com's Billionaire CEO Will Not Be Charged With Sexual Assault 62
US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling 129
Amazon Fires Employees Over Data Leak As It Fights Seller Scams, Report Says 48
Huawei Executive Arrest Inspires Advance Fee Scams 105
China Calls For Release of Arrested Huawei CFO Detained In Canada 200
Canada Arrests Top Huawei Executive For Allegedly Violating Iran Sanctions 163
Thieves Are Boosting the Signal From Key Fobs Inside Homes To Steal Vehicles 269
China Announces Punishments For Intellectual-Property Theft 67
Jailed 'Iceman' Hacker Now Charged With Drone-Smuggling Scheme Orchestrated From Prison 39
Samsung's Foldable Screen Tech Has Been Stolen, Sold To China 75
The FBI Created a Fake FedEx Website To Unmask a Cybercriminal 82
Can The Police Remotely Drive Your Stolen Car Into Custody? 217
Compelling New Suspect For DB Cooper Skyjacking Found By Army Data Analyst 111
Man Spoofs GPS To Fake Shop Visits For Profit, Gets Caught 97
A New Senate Bill Would Hit Robocallers With Up To a $10,000 Fine For Every Call 180
Man Pleads Guilty To Swatting Attack That Led To Death of Kansas Man 283
Drive-By Shooting Suspect Remotely Wipes iPhone X, Catches Extra Charges 218
Tesla Worker Charged With Embezzling More Than $9 Million 55
'Almost All' Pakistani Banks Hacked In Security Breach, Report Says 23
Senator Introduces Bill That Would Send CEOs To Jail For Violating Consumer Privacy 104
CIA Vault7 Leaker To Be Charged For Leaking More Classified Data While in Prison 94
Feds Expand Security Researchers' Ability To Hack Without Going To Jail 51
Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Will Now Plead Guilty To Dozens More Swat Incidents 196
Tesla Faces FBI Probe Over Model 3 Production Numbers 143
Equifax Web Site Designer Fined $50,000 And Confined To Home Over Insider Trading 105
How Genealogy Websites Make It Easier To Catch Killers 73
French Officer Caught Selling Access To State Surveillance System On the Darkweb 68
Facebook Is 'Teeming' With Fake Accounts Created By Undercover Cops 126
Former South Korean President Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison For Accepting $5.4 Million In Bribes From Samsung 152
Seven Russian Hackers Charged With Hacking Anti-Doping Organizations 115
Police Use Fitbit Data To Charge 90-Year-Old Man In Stepdaughter's Killing 108
Seattle Police Department Is Offering An Anti-Swatting Service 106
Ex-NSA Employee Gets 5 Years In Prison For Taking Home Top Secret Files 174
Thieves Who Stole GPS Tracking Devices Were Caught Within Hours 95
Mystery Solved: FBI Closed New Mexico Observatory to Investigate Child Porn 107
Amazon Plants Fake Packages In Delivery Trucks As Part of Undercover Ploy To 'Trap' Drivers Stealing 236
Tesla Is Facing US Criminal Probe Over Elon Musk Statements 203
Man Who Uploaded Deadpool To Facebook May Get Six Months In Prison 215
Man Jailed For Hundreds of Fake TripAdvisor Reviews 59
Two Lawmakers Urge FTC, CFPB To Keep Pressure On Equifax 48
$11M Worth of Legally-Purchased Music Will Be Confiscated From Florida's Prisoners 309
Facebook Accuses BlackBerry of Stealing Its Voice-Messaging Tech 28
JD.com's Billionaire CEO Was Arrested On Allegation of Rape 116
US Health Insurer Premera Blue Cross Accused of Destroying Evidence in Data Breach Lawsuit 72
YouTube Download Sites Are the Biggest Piracy Threat To Music Industry, Industry Figures Say 149
An Abusive Silicon Valley CEO Is Going To Jail 124
Murder Suspect Jailed Over Refusing To Reveal Password In the UK 165
Some Baltimore Residents Are Lobbying To Bring Back Aerial Surveillance 145
Justice Department Warns It Might Not Be Able To Prosecute Voting Machine Hackers 102
Rideshare Boycott Sparked By Murders In China 76
Student Arrested For Posting Zombie-Killing AR Game Clip Filmed at His High School 352
Teenaged YouTube 'Counter-Strike' Star Dies, Kills Two In Fiery Wrong-Way Highway Crash 345
Texas ISP Slams Music Industry For Trying To Turn It Into a 'Copyright Cop' 99
Volkswagen's CEO Was Told About Emissions Software Months Before Scandal, Says Report 93
FBI Warns of 'Unlimited' ATM Cashout Scheme 71
Seattle Airport Employee Steals Airplane, Crashes It Into the Ground 148
New Alexa Skill Plays Fake Stupid Arguments To Scare Off Burglars 69
GE Engineer With Ties To China Accused of Stealing Power Plant Technology 136
How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald's Monopoly Game and Stole Millions 102
Cops Accuse 20-Year-Old College Student of Stealing More Than $5 Million in Bitcoin by Hijacking Phone Numbers 71
364 Idaho Inmates Hacked Their Prison Tablets For Free Credits 92
New Crime-Predicting Algorithm Borrows From Apollo Space Mission Tech 127
MPAA Seeks Stronger Actions To Fight Streaming Video Piracy 110
24 People Have Now Been Sentenced In India-Based Phone-Scam Case 115
Hackers Account For 90 Percent of Login Attempts At Online Retailers 33
Judge Jails Defendent For Failing To Unlock Phones 506
Chinese Police Bust World Cup Gambling Ring With More Than $1 Billion In Cryptocurrency 28
Controversial Police Facial Recognition Test Fails to Recognize Anyone in London 41
Could Electrically Stimulating Criminals' Brains Prevent Crime? 218
UK Police Plan To Deploy 'Staggeringly Inaccurate' Facial Recognition in London 104
Data From Open-Source Ancestry Site Leads to More Arrests 126
Thousands of Uber Drivers Scammed Out of Millions of Dollars 94
Colorado Lawmakers Want To Make It a Felony To Fly a Drone Over a Wildfire 203
Feds Ran a Bitcoin-Laundering Sting For Over a Year 97
Blogger Stabbed To Death After Internet Abuse Seminar 449
Mumbai Bans Plastic Bags, Bottles, and Single-Use Plastic Containers 174
Bumbling Hacker 'Bitcoin Baron' Sentenced To 20 Months In Prison 39
Ex-CIA Employee Charged In Major Leak of Agency Hacking Tools 136
Was the Stanford Prison Experiment a Sham? 136
After a Decade, 77-Year-Old Gets Back $110,000 Lost In 'Nigerian Prince' Scam 128
Prosecution of UK News Photographer Collapses After Recording Disproves Police Testimony 207
Two Teenaged Gamers Plead 'Not Guilty' For Fatal Kansas Swatting Death 149
The Silk Road's Alleged Right-Hand Man Will Finally Face a US Court 74
US Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos's Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani 125
Guy Robs Someone At Gunpoint For Domain Name, Gets 20 Years In Jail 134
Police Departments Are Training Dogs To Sniff Out Thumb Drives 159
Uber Driver Kills His Passenger 231
Canadian Hacker Sentenced To 5 Years For Yahoo Security Breach 21
Two 18-Year-Olds Charged With Hacking YouTube's Most Popular Videos 39
Gamers Behind Fatal 'SWAT' Call Now Face Life In Prison 270
Gamers Involved In Fatal Wichita 'Swatting' Indicted On Federal Charges 432
Alleged Owners of Mugshots.com Have Been Arrested For Extortion 101
Hackers Steal Millions From Mexican Banks In Transfer Heist 29
Suspect Identified In CIA 'Vault 7' Leak 106
A Smart Doorbell Company Is Working With Cops To Report 'Suspicious' People, Activities 273
Police Drop Charges Filed Against 19-Year-Old Archivist For Downloading FOIA Releases 154
UK Police Say 92 Percent False Positive Facial Recognition Is No Big Deal 189
70-Year-Old Former Volkswagen CEO Charged With Fraud Over Emissions Scandal 84
Criminals Used a Fleet of Drones To Disrupt an FBI Hostage Operation 61
Genealogy Websites Were Key To Big Break In Golden State Killer Case 237
Belgium Declares Video Game Loot Boxes Gambling and Therefore Illegal 176
E-Waste Innovator Will Go To Jail For Making Windows Restore Disks That Only Worked With Valid Licenses 426
More Than 1 Million Kids Had Their Identities Stolen in 2017 69
Facebook Has Hosted Stolen Identities and Social Security Numbers for Years 37
UK Teen Who Hacked CIA Director Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison 150
German ICO Savedroid Pulls Exit Scam After Raising $50 Million 200
Former FCC Broadband Panel Chair Arrested For Fraud 106
New York's Attorney General Is Investigating Bitcoin Exchanges 43
19-Year-Old Archivist Charged For Downloading Freedom-of-Information Releases 422
Jailed Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Sneaks Online, Threatens More 'Swats' 285
438 Bitcoins Worth Nearly $3.5 Million Stolen From Exchange In India, CSO Accused 85
Backpage Founders Charged With Money Laundering, Aiding Prostitution 256
'Vigilante Hackers' Strike Routers In Russia and Iran, Reports Motherboard 121
Pirate Music Site's Owner Sentenced to Five Years in Prison 101
How Technology Caught the Austin Serial Bomber 148
DIY Explosives Experimenter Blows Self Up, Contaminates Building 366
North Carolina Police Obtained Warrants Demanding All Google Users Near Four Crime Scenes 214
Former Equifax CIO Charged With Insider Trading 90
SEC Charges Theranos, CEO Elizabeth Holmes With 'Massive Fraud' 128
Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Is Now Also Wanted in Florida 87
Trump Promises Copyright Crackdown As DoJ Takes Aim At Streaming Pirates 107
Thieves Steal 600 Powerful Bitcoin-Mining Computers In Iceland 88
Two More 'SWAT' Calls in California -- One Involving a 12-Year-Old Gamer 178
Sweden Considers Six Years in Jail For Online Pirates 194
Electronics-Recycling Innovator Faces Prison For Extending Computers' Lives 288
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Is Under Investigation Over $3.9 Billion Media Deal 145
LoopX Startup Pulls ICO Exit Scam and Disappears with $4.5 Million 122
Man Handed Conditional Prison Sentence for Spreading Information About Popcorn Time Service 120
Russian Nuclear Scientists Arrested For 'Bitcoin Mining Plot' 84
Police In China Are Scanning Travelers With Facial Recognition Glasses 87
36 Indicted in Global Cybercrime Ring That Stole $530M 40
Samsung Billionaire Gets Off Easy 93
Lauri Love Ruling 'Sets Precedent' For Trying Hacking Suspects in UK 222
Family of 'Swat' Victim Sues Kansas Police, Lawmakers Propose 40-Year Jail Terms 291
Investigators Crack DB Cooper Code, Identify Suspect With Possible CIA Connections 133
FBI Warns of Email Death Threats Demanding Bitcoin 95
A 15-Year-Old Convinced Verizon He Was the Head of the CIA 143
Two More Gamers May Be Charged in Fatal Kansas 'SWAT' Shooting 170
Crooks Created 28 Fake Ad Agencies To Disguise Massive Malvertising Campaign 36
Kim Dotcom Sues New Zealand For $6.8 Billion In Damages Over Erroneous Arrest 216
Tesla Owner Attempts Autopilot Defense During DUI Stop 139
Church Elder/'Jeopardy' Champion Charged With Computer Crimes 102
iPhone X Purchase Leads To Police, Battering Ram, and Handcuffs 411
Apple and Google Are Rerouting Their Employee Buses as Attacks Resume 292
China's Smartphone Maker OnePlus Says Up To 40,000 Customers Were Affected by Credit Card Security Breach 8
Instant Messaging Company Snap Threatens Jail Time for Leakers 92
Bitcoin's Fluctuations Are Too Much For Even Ransomware Cybercriminals 84
Software 'No More Accurate Than Untrained Humans' At Predicting Recidivism 166
Facebook Is a 'Living, Breathing Crime Scene,' Says Former Tech Insider 144
OnePlus Customers Report Credit Card Fraud After Buying From the Company's Website 63
Text Message Scammer Gets Five Years in Prison 69
Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Charged; Faces 11 More Years in Prison 428
Apple Health Data Is Being Used As Evidence In a Rape and Murder Investigation 185
Violating a Website's Terms of Service Is Not a Crime, Federal Court Rules 82
Apple Investigated By France For 'Planned Obsolescence' 313
Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Had Already Been To Prison For Fake Bomb Threats 315