Neowin News Feed for: Arrest

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov releases first public statement since his arrest in France

Martin Hodás — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 07:54:01 +0000

In his first statement since his arrest, Pavel Durov blames French authorities, yet he promises to do more to stop criminals abusing Telegram. Read more...

Telegram releases official statement as its CEO remains in French custody

Martin Hodás — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 10:26:02 +0000

Popular messenger app Telegram insists it complies with EU law and claims that its detained CEO Pavel Durov has nothing to hide. The platform is known for ignoring authorities and even the media. Read more...

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov reportedly got arrested in France

John Callaham — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 02:40:02 +0000

Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder and CEO of the popular Telegram messaging app, was reportedly arrested in France this evening. Read more...

Teenager nabbed in the UK in connection with ransomware attacks against US firms

Paul Hill — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 11:48:01 +0000

The West Midlands Police, in cooperation with the NCA and FBI, have arrested a 17-year-old boy in Walsall, UK, on suspicion of participating in ransomware attacks against US-based companies. Read more...

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried finally arrested in The Bahamas

Paul Hill — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 07:00:01 +0000

Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in The Bahamas at the request of the United States. It's likely that the U.S. will ask for him to be extradited to face charges related to FTX's mismanagement. Read more...

Dutch government arrests suspected developer of Ethereum mixing service, Tornado Cash

Paul Hill — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 11:38:02 +0000

Dutch authorities have arrested a suspected developer of Tornado Cash, an Ethereum mixing service. It comes after the U.S. sanctioned the service for allegedly mixing criminally gained crypto. Read more...

Man gets arrested for tracking girlfriend by attaching an Apple Watch to her car's wheel

Usama Jawad — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 07:30:02 +0000

A man from Nashville, Tennessee has been arrested for tracking his girlfriend's whereabouts by attaching his Apple Watch to her car's wheel and then using the Life360 app to track her location. Read more...

27-year-old arrested for selling modified save data for Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Usama Jawad — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 07:50:02 +0000

A 27-year-old has been arrested for selling altered save data for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The item had a price tag of $32 and included any perks and stats desired by the buyer. Read more...

17-year-old Tampa teen arrested in connection with Twitter hack

Usman Khan Lodhi — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 20:42:01 +0000

Graham Ivan Clark, a 17-year-old teen, has been arrested and charged with 30 felony counts in connection with the Twitter hack. He reaped more than $100,000 in Bitcoin in just one day. Read more...

Huawei fires executive recently charged with espionage in Poland

Paul Hill — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 16:16:01 +0000

Huawei has announced that it has fired an employee that was arrested on Friday on espionage charges. The firm said it wants to distance itself from the individual and his alleged crimes. Read more...

Huawei CFO arrested, faces extradition for suspected sanctions violations

Paul Hill — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 01:54:01 +0000

Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou has been arrested in Canada at the behest of U.S. law enforcement for allegedly violating sanctions against Iran. Huawei claims that it is not aware of any wrongdoing. Read more...

Man arrested over death threats to FCC chairman

João Carrasqueira — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 01:34:01 +0000

A 33-year-old man from California has been arrested due to intimidating e-mails sent to FCC chairman Ajit Pai which threatened his family's lives following the vote to repeal net neutrality rules. Read more...

Facebook apologizes for translation that resulted in arrest

Richard Tyr Blewitt — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:18:01 +0000

Facebook has apologized, after a translation provided by its AI led Israeli police to arrest and question a Palestinian man, who they thought was about to launch an attack with his bulldozer. Read more...

Cybercriminal gets prison sentence over data theft and attempt to send heroin to Brian Krebs

Justin Luna — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 14:04:48 +0000

A malware operator named Sergey Vovnenko was recently sentenced to 41 months in prison after managing a malware botnet that was able to infect computers, whose data were stolen and sold online. Read more...

Samsung vice chairman arrested on accusations of bribery, corruption, embezzlement

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 08:54:01 +0000

Samsung Group's vice chairman Jay Y. Lee could not escape arrest for a second time, after prosecutors presented evidence in court that Lee was hiding assets and could destroy evidence. Read more...

Kaspersky Lab employee and two others arrested in Russia for treason

Gabriel Nunes — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 22:58:01 +0000

Russian authorities are charging three men with treason for favoring interests from the United States. One of them is a Kaspersky Lab employee and the other two are senior FSB cybersecurity agents. Read more...

KickassTorrents domains shut down; alleged owner arrested

Justin Luna — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:10:02 +0000

Popular torrenting website KickassTorrents was recently seized, as part of an order by the US Department of Justice. Its alleged owner, Artem Vaulin, was also arrested in his hometown in Poland. Read more...

Second teen arrested after TalkTalk hack; company admits some bank details unencrypted

Andy Weir — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:23:03 +0000

Police investigating the recent TalkTalk cyberattack arrested a second teenager yesterday. But TalkTalk now admits that thousands of customers' banking details which were hacked were also unencrypted. Read more...

Lizard Squad member arrested in UK over Xbox and PlayStation attacks

Andy Weir — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 13:06:21 +0000

An 18-year-old man has been arrested in the UK, and computing equipment confiscated, as part of a joint investigation with the FBI into recent attacks against Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. Read more...

China cracks down on internet rumors, makes arrests

Jett Goldsmith — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 20:33:07 +0000

China has cracked down on what it calls "internet rumor-mongering," detaining 85 people and punishing 16 websites for falsely spreading rumors about everything from earthquakes to violence. Read more...

Pirate Bay co-founder arrested after two years on the run

Andy Weir — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 07:34:46 +0000

Peter Sunde, co-founder of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, has been arrested in Sweden following almost two years on the run, after being sentenced to prison for copyright violations. Read more...

Man buys iPad, finds nothing but clay in box; gets arrested for fraud

Andy Weir — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 05:59:01 +0000

A man who bought an Apple iPad from the UK's largest retailer was shocked to find nothing but clay in the box - and even more surprised to be arrested on suspicion of fraud after requesting a refund. Read more...

Developer: ArmA III team members on holiday when arrested

John Callaham — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:00:10 +0000

Developer Bohemia Interactive now says that the two ArmA III team members who were arrested on spy charges in Greece were on holiday, rather than conducting research into the upcoming military shooter Read more...

Man arrested after calling 911 to complain about his iPhone

John Callaham — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:12:25 +0000

In a case of extreme silliness, an Illinois man was arrested this week after he called his local 911 number five times in order to complain that his iPhone was no longer working. Read more...

FBI raids homes of alleged members of Anonymous in NY

Tzvi Friedman — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:24:41 +0000

While Lulzsec took the spotlight yesterday afternoon in its successful defacement of The Sun’s website, displaying an article that claimed Rupert Murdoch had died, the FBI was busy following through on search warrants in NY... Read more...

Wikileaks Assange now in custody, will be held by UK authorities until Dec. 14th

Kelly Hodgkins — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:59:37 +0000

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange turned himself in to British authorities earlier today and is now being held without bail, according to a report from TechCrunch. The embattled frontman for whistle-blowers everywhere remains in jail while... Read more...

'Virtual theft' leads to arrest

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:37:44 +0000

A Dutch teenager has been arrested for allegedly stealing virtual furniture from "rooms" in Habbo Hotel, a 3D social networking website. The 17-year-old is accused of stealing 4,000 euros (Â£2,840) worth of virtual furniture, bought... Read more...

German Police Arrest 10 International Phishing Suspects

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:06:25 +0000

Germany's Federal Crime Office has arrested a Russian-Ukrainian-German group of 10 suspects accused of running a Trojan horse phishing attack that has been targeting users' bank accounts. An 18-month police investigation culminated in arrests on... Read more...

Spanish police arrest creator of mobile phone virus

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:56:29 +0000

Spanish police have arrested a 28-year-old man on suspicion of creating and spreading a virus that affected more than 115,000 high-end mobile phones. According to a police statement, the man was detained in the eastern... Read more...

YouTube clip leads to arrest in Canadian murder hunt

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:13:19 +0000

A video clip posted on YouTube has helped Canadian police in the investigation of a nightclub murder.Police in the southern Canadian city of Hamilton posted a clip from club surveillance cameras onto the popular naff... Read more...

Group Says Yahoo's Help Led to Another Dissident's Arrest

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:20:44 +0000

A media rights group has identified a third dissident that the Chinese government arrested based on information seemingly supplied by a Yahoo subsidiary. On Wednesday, Reporters Without Borders announced that it has obtained a copy... Read more...

Hong Kong's First Filesharing Arrest

Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:19:02 +0000

Filesharers in Hong Kong have been sent a warning about their activities after the first arrest for sharing copyrighted files. Authorities there have arrested a 38-year-old man for allegedly sharing copyrighted material over the internet... Read more...

Japan police arrest two for file sharing

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:01:14 +0000

TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- In a rare police crackdown on Internet file-sharing, two Japanese men were arrested for allegedly disseminating movies and games with software that claimed to protect users' identities. The arrests -- only... Read more...

Italian police arrest 14 in hacker probe

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 03 Aug 2002 09:47:26 +0000

Italian police have arrested 14 suspected hackers who are accused of thousands of computer intrusions, including attacks on the U.S. Army and Navy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Italy's financial police, the Guardia... Read more...