Crime Stories for 2020

The COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Would Make Illegal Streaming a Felony 114
'Evil Mobile Emulator Farms' Used To Steal Millions From US and EU Banks 59
Hackers Are Selling More Than 85,000 MySQL Databases On a Dark Web Portal 24
The Zodiac Killer's Cipher Has Been Solved After 51 Years 78
Florida Governor Defends Police Raid On COVID Data Whistleblower 145
Proposed US Law Could Slap Twitch Streamers With Felonies For Broadcasting Copyrighted Material 208
BTC-e Founder Sentenced To Five Years in Prison for Laundering Ransomware Funds 9
Did COVID Data Whistleblower Hack Florida's Emergency Alert System? Police Raid Home 210
Some Ransomware Gangs are Now Phoning Victims Who Restore from Backups 133
Report Claims Huawei Finance Chief Meng Wanzhou Could Be Set Free In Exchange of Admitting Guilt 43
Chinese Police Have Seized $4.2 Billion Cryptos from PlusToken Ponzi Crackdown 81
Cambridge University Says Darwin's Iconic Notebooks Were Stolen 52
Three Members of TMT Cybercrime Group Arrested in Nigeria 15
Apple Security Chief Maintains Innocence After Bribery Charges 71
Another Cryptocurrency Heist, This Time $2 Million Stolen from Akropolis 60
Microsoft Engineer Gets Nine Years For Stealing $10 Million From Microsoft 41
Therapy Patients Blackmailed For Cash After Clinic Data Breach 55
Massive Criminal Trial Begins For 'Cyberbunker' Dark Web Server 16
Hackers Behind Life-Threatening Attack On Chemical Maker Are Sanctioned 77
How a Secretive Phone Company Helped the Crime World Go Dark 18
Billionaire CEO of Software Company Indicted For Alleged $2 Billion Tax Evasion Schemes 75
SEC Sues John McAfee Over Promoting Cryptocurrency On Twitter 29
Two Leaders of Videogame Piracy Group Arrested 45
Owners of BitMEX, a Leading Bitcoin Exchange, Face Criminal Charges 24
Dark Web Drugs Raid Leads To 179 Arrests 152
At Least 10 Amazon Employees Took Bribes from Sellers, Indictment Alleges 14
CEO of Cyber Fraud Startup NS8 Arrested By FBI, Facing Fraud Charges 26
Encrochat Investigation Finds Corrupt Cops Leaking Information To Criminals 41
US Charges Chinese and Malaysian Hackers In Global Hacking Campaign 7
Japan's NTT Docomo Admits Thieves Breeched Its e-Money Service 21
Who Committed the 25-Year, $8 Million Library Heist? 61
Former IT Director Gets Jail Time For Selling Government's Cisco Gear On eBay 66
Google Geofence Data Exonerates Man After Being Charged With Murder 169
FBI Worried Ring and Other Doorbell Cameras Could Tip Owners Off To Police Searches 128
Kingpin Behind Massive Identity-Theft Service Says He's Sorry 24
China Secretly Built a Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Muslims 271
Clearview AI CEO Says 'Over 2,400 Police Agencies' Are Using Its Facial Recognition Software 14
'GamerGate' Proponent Kills Ex-Girlfriend, Commits Suicide 308
Tens of Suspects Arrested For Cashing-out Santander ATMs Using Software Glitch 59
San Diego's Police Are Using Video from 'Smart' Streetlights 100
Anthony Levandowski Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison, As New $4 Billion Lawsuit Against Uber Is Filed 23
After 5 Years, Australia Finally Cracked a Drug Kingpin's BlackBerry 70
A 17-Year-Old's Journey: Minecraft, SIM-Swapping Bitcoin Heists, Breaching Twitter 135
Apple Being Sued For Refusing To Help iTunes Gift Card Scam Victims 111
'World's Most Wanted Man' Involveld In Bizarre Attempt To Buy Hacking Tools 27
Ukraine President Plugs 15-Year-Old Film To Free Hostages 34
Surveillance Software Scanning File-Sharing Networks Led To 12,000 Arrests 106
Suspect Is Arrested In Grisly Killing of Tech CEO Fahim Saleh 56
Why Did a Tech Executive Install 1,000 Security Cameras Around San Francisco? 148
'Guilty' Verdict for Russian Who Stole 117M Dropbox and LinkedIn Login Codes in 2012 31
US Secret Service Creates New Cyber Fraud Task Force 28
Body Cam with Military Police Footage Sold on Ebay 17
Former Yahoo Engineer Who Infiltrated 6,000 Accounts Avoids Jail 35
How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime 87
With DOJ Charges, Former VC Mike Rothenberg Could Now Be Facing Serious Jail Time 29
1 Killed, 2 Shot Outside Amazon Warehouse In Jacksonville 63
Whatever Happened to the 'Flash Crash' Trader? 91
Amazon Launches Counterfeit Crimes Unit To Fight Knockoffs On Its Store 75
Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm 352
How The FBI Identified That Masked Arsonist Identified and Jailed Because of Her Etsy Review 259
Why The $100 Million Police Body Camera Experiment 'Isn't Working' 309
Cell Phone Pings Lead Investigators to Buried Bodies 61
FBI Used Etsy, LinkedIn To Make Arrest In Torching of Philadelphia Police Vehicles 325
'Hey Siri, I'm Getting Pulled Over': iPhone Feature Will Record Police Interaction, Send Location 253
How an Online Mob Doxxed an Innocent Man 158
When the Police Get Filmed, Is There More Accountability? 269
New Java-Based Ransomware Targets Linux and Windows Systems 37
DEA Authorized To Conduct Surveillance On Protesters 186
US Marshals Service Breach Exposed Personal Data of 387,000 Prisoners 9
'Video Vigilante' Arrested After Filming a Hospital's Emergency Ramp 225
William Shatner Upset By Police Who Drew Guns Upon Stormtrooper On May 4th 431
Samsung Heir Apologizes For Corruption and Union-Busting Scandals 18
Parolees Are Being Forced To Download Telmate's Guardian App That Listens and Records Every Move 228
Supreme Court To Consider Limiting America's 'Anti-Hacking' Law 21
Uber Argues 'Fraud' Absolves It From Paying Star Engineer's $179 Million Fine 41
Former Tesla Employees Brought Stolen Documents To Self-Driving Startup Zoox 45
NASA Astronaut's Estranged Wife Charged With Lying About Space Crime Allegation 114
'Zoombombing' Is a Federal Offense That Could Result In Imprisonment, Prosecutors Warn 37
A Hacker Stole and Leaked the Xbox Series X Graphics Source Code 33
Ex-Uber Engineer Pleads Guilty To Stealing Trade Secrets From Google 19
Live Coronavirus Map Used to Spread Malware 19
Two Men Used Drones to Smuggle Drugs, Cell Phones Into Prison 26
How One Man Lost His Life Savings in a SIM Hack 84
Meet the Man Being Sued By the FTC Over His Kickstarter Campaign for a High-Tech Backpack 100
US Homeland Security Official Charged with Stealing Confidential Government Software, Databases 25
Crooks Keep Revealing Their Crimes on Social Media 46
Google Tracked His Bike Ride Past a Burglary, and That Made Him a Suspect 204
Scam Call Center's Own CCTV Gets Breached 49
Are Tesla's Cameras a Threat To Our Privacy? 101
American Lawmakers Launch Investigations Into Ring's Police Deals 14
Watch Out: This Verizon Smishing Scam Is Crazy Realistic 75
Police Say Amazon's Ring Isn't Much of a Crime Fighter 78
Ohio Man Arrested For Running Bitcoin Mixing Service That Laundered $300 Million 79
Man Who Refused To Decrypt Hard Drives Is Free After Four Years In Jail 149
New Ransomware Targets Industrial Control Systems 35
Amazon's Ring Doorbell Update Allows Opt Out of All Police Video Requests 74
Fingerprints Can Now Be Dated To Within a Day of When They Were Made 25
Alan Turing's Doctorate & Knighthood Medal Recovered 36 Years After Theft 22
Amazon To Ramp Up Counterfeit Reporting To Law Enforcement 73
Notorious Crime Gang Targets Internet Routers Using Tomato Firmware 51
PopSockets, Tile and Other Companies Will Ask Congress To Help Stop Big Tech Bullying 58
FBI Arrests Man Suspected of Orchestrating Dozens of 'Swatting' Calls 59
FBI Asks Apple To Help Unlock Two iPhones 134
'Police Tracked a Terror Suspect on WhatsApp -- Until His Phone Went Dark After a Warning From Facebook' 113
Man Faces Felony Charges After His Apple Watch Proves That He Lied To the Police 56
Seoul To Install AI Cameras For Crime Detection 35