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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov officially charged for alleged crimes in France

John Callaham — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:58:01 +0000

The founder and CEO of Telegram, Pavel Durov, has been charged in France for allegedly enabling crimes via the popular messaging app. 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...

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...

GTA 6 leaker has been arrested in London following investigation

Steve Bennett — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:16:01 +0000

Following recent leaks of the new Grand Theft Auto 6 in development, a teenager from Oxfordshire, UK, has been arrested in London as part of an investigation by the UK National Crime Agency. Read more...

Suspected Lapsus$ hackers rounded up by City of London Police

Paul Hill — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:00:02 +0000

A prominent member of the Lapsus$ hacking group has supposedly been identified as a 16-year-old boy; seven of the group's members have also been arrested by the City of London Police. Read more...

Ahmed Mohamed receives Surface Pro 3, Microsoft Band and more freebies from Microsoft

Usama Jawad — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 06:28:02 +0000

Microsoft has delivered an assortment of tech related goodies to 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, which includes a Surface Pro 3, a Microsoft Band, a copy of Office 365 and more. Read more...

Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde released from prison

Usama Jawad — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:10:01 +0000

The Pirate Bay co-founder, Peter Sunde, was freed from prison this morning after five months of time served; he plans to return to building a few different products he started previously Read more...

Suspects arrested for selling sample Intel CPUs on eBay

John Callaham — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:18:18 +0000

Four engineers from Taiwan that worked for Intel's OEM makers have been arrested for allegedly trying to sell sample engineering CPUs on eBay, The suspects could face up to five years in jail. Read more...

LulzSec spokesman "Topiary" has been arrested say UK police [Update: LulzSec confirms]

Tom Dwyer — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:41:00 +0000

Whilst LulzSec may now have disbanded, the police are still investigating their actions and have now released a statement announcing they have arrested a prominent LulzSec member under the name of Topiary. Topiary was named as... Read more...

Alleged teenage LulzSec leader arrested in Essex, UK [Update]

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:51:13 +0000

News has just broken claiming that the leader and mastermind of infamous hacking group LulzSec has been arrested in Wickford, Essex. The suspect in question is a 19-year-old male who was caught as a result... Read more...

Dutch arrest 19 year old for DDOS attacks

Brandon Boyce — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:37:15 +0000

A few days ago, Neowin reported that Dutch authorities had arrested a 16 year old in connection to the distributed denial of service attacks that took place on behalf of Wikileaks as part of Operation:... Read more...

Record company executive arrested for not posting on Twitter

Sam Symons — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:19:16 +0000

Twitter has grown exponentially in the last few years, with it now being a highly used way for news and announcements to spread. However, this got a bit out of hand when a record company... Read more...

Zbot trojan creators arrested in London

Brad Sams — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:29:32 +0000

Police in London have arrested two people on suspicion that they created the ZeuS or Zbot trojan that infected many computers around the world. The couple used the trojan for monetary gain but authorities... Read more...

Man charged for attempting to hire a hit man online

Mitchell LeBlanc — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:40:44 +0000

The month of love does not always end happily for everybody. One such case of an unhappy ending is that of Karim Emara. Reports have surfaced which state that Emara has been charged... Read more...

Teen Arrested For Posting Nude Pictures Of Ex On Myspace

Thu, 22 May 2008 08:15:22 +0000

MAY 21--Meet Alex Phillips. The Wisconsin teenager is facing felony child pornography charges for allegedly posting naked photos of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend on his MySpace page. When contacted by police about the two images,... Read more...

Tor Anonymity Server Admin Arrested

Steven Parker — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:19:06 +0000

In a recent blog posting, a German operator of a Tor anonymous proxy server revealed that he was arrested by German police officers at the end of July. Although he was released shortly afterwards, information... Read more...

Top Executives of Thai Samsung Electronics Arrested

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:58:36 +0000

Park Kwang-kee, managing director of Thai Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a Samsung subsidiary in Thailand, and Kim Chung-jun, the company's general manager, were arrested in Bangkok and turned over to the police's economic and cyber... Read more...

Man described as a top spammer arrested

Tom Warren — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:16:00 +0000

A 27-year-old man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail. Robert... Read more...

Michigan man arrested for using cafe's free WiFi from car

Tue, 22 May 2007 16:58:56 +0000

Sam Peterson was arrested under a Michigan law barring access to anyone else's network without authorization; he is being prosecuted for using a cafe's free WiFi from his car. The cafe's WiFi network was reserved... Read more...

Siemens Board Member Arrested On Bribery Charges

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:46:06 +0000

Johannes Feldmayer, a top-ranking official at Siemens, was arrested in Germany due to an investigation into payments Siemens made to the head of the AUB labour organization. Siemens said the arrest of the head of... Read more...

South Korean Duo Arrested for 1.6 Billion Spam E-Mails

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:28:39 +0000

Two unnamed South Korean computer programmers have been arrested on suspicion of sending out 1.6 billion spam e-mail messages between September and December last year in violation of the country's commerce laws. The two men,... Read more...

Four Livedoor Staff Arrested

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:26:42 +0000

Despite denying any wrongdoing the head of Livedoor, Takafumi Horie, has been arrested along with three other colleagues in Japan. The Japanese company has recently caused havoc... Read more...

Man Arrested Over Valentine's Net Suicide Pact

Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:35:13 +0000

An American man has been arrested after allegedly trying to arrange a mass online suicide pact for Valentine's Day on Monday. Gerald Krien, 26, was caught after one woman alerted authorities after hearing one of... Read more...

Cisco Source Code Thief Arrested in England

Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:07:33 +0000

A 20-year old man was arrested in England on September 3rd for the alleged theft of proprietary source code used by Cisco Systems. No formal charges have been brought against the man (who's identity has... Read more...

3 arrested filming "The Day After Tommorrow"

Sun, 06 Jun 2004 18:59:37 +0000

Three moviegoers were caught recording the recently released disaster flick "The Day After Tomorrow" with handheld video cameras in U.S. and Canadian theaters, the Motion Picture Association of America said Thursday. Two of the purported... Read more...

Sasser suspect arrested in Germany

Sat, 08 May 2004 10:17:27 +0000

An 18-year-old high school student has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of creating the Sasser internet worm, police say. The worm spread through an estimated 18 million computers across the world last week, continually... Read more...

Man arrested for allegedly extorting Google

Tom Warren — Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:51:22 +0000

A California man has been charged with extortion, after allegedly making demands for $100,000 from search giant Google. According to court papers, he claimed that if Google did not pay, he would... Read more...

Wollongong man arrested in global child porn sting

Fri, 27 Feb 2004 01:34:38 +0000

A Wollongong man is to appear in court next months after being arrested at the Australian end of an international child internet porn operation. A spokeswoman for the Australian Federal Police said warrants... Read more...

Teen arrested in Blaster worm case

Sat, 30 Aug 2003 02:42:28 +0000

An 18-year-old Minnesota resident was arrested and charged with releasing a variant of the MSBlaster worm, U.S. officials announced Friday. Jeffrey Lee Parson, who used the nickname "teekid," made his first court appearance in St.... Read more...

Microsoft Employees Arrested for Stealing Software

Tom Warren — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:43:34 +0000

A former Microsoft Corp employee was arrested on Monday for allegedly ordering more than $17 million of software via an internal purchasing system and then selling it to keep the proceeds for himself. Richard... Read more...

Man arrested for distributing ROMs in Japan

Marcel Klum — Fri, 11 Apr 2003 20:19:38 +0000

Japanese police arrest suspect for distributing illegal software. The ACCS (Association of Copyright for Computer Software) revealed today that for the first time this year it has had an individual arrested for... Read more...

Three Suspected Hackers Arrested

Sat, 08 Feb 2003 08:38:03 +0000

Two men were arrested in England and one in the U.S. Thursday on suspicion of being part of a hacking group that created a relatively unknown Internet worm, officials said. The two... Read more...

Alleged 'Bumfights' Video Makers Arrested in Calif.

Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:14:24 +0000

Seriously, where is the world heading towards? This is quite sickening to me, and i'm sure it'll give you something to talk about. Could it get anymore insane? --Ed. Two men who... Read more...

Buy A GeForce4 Ti4600 And Get Arrested @ BestBuy.com!

Steven Parker — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:02:56 +0000

Seen at Warp2search. Here's a strange one... we found an Advertisement at BestBuy.com that proclaimed "VisionTek GeForce4 Ti4600 for Special Pre-Order Price of $129.00..the savings is a $200.00 Value". Normally a "typo" or mistake would... Read more...