Neowin News Feed for: Charged

Man who paid $150 to a magician in Biden deepfake robocall campaign faces $6 million fine

Martin Hodás — Sun, 26 May 2024 07:06:01 +0000

The man who ordered a malicious robocall campaign with a fake voice of Joe Biden was charged with 26 felony counts. The Attorney General hopes this will be a strong deterrent for anyone else. Read more...

Seattle man gets 1.5 year sentence after insider trading netted him $400,000

Jett Goldsmith — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:58:30 +0000

Sean Stokke, a Seattle stock trader and associate of former Microsoft manager Brian Jorgenson, has been sentenced to 1.5 years in prison after insider trading which earned him over $400,000 in total. Read more...

Microsoft charged for evading tax in India

Tom Warren — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:41:25 +0000

Thanks to prince_niceguy for the news tip. Microsoft has been charged Rs 256 ($57 million) in taxes and penalties by the service tax department in India. The department found that Microsoft India's Gurgoan unit carried... Read more...

HP and Staples Charged With Breaking Antitrust Law

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:12:46 +0000

A U.S. man has filed suit against office-products retailer Staples Inc. and printer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard Co. in federal court today, charging that the two companies broke antitrust laws in collaborating on the sale of replacement... Read more...

Man Using Laptop on Garden Wall Charged with Wireless Theft

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:14:44 +0000

A 39-year-old man was arrested yesterday after he was spotted tapping away at his laptop while perched on a wall outside a home in Chiswick, west London, by two police community support officers. The officers... Read more...

Man charged with uploading movie to Web

Steven Parker — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:00:21 +0000

A man who allegedly uploaded a copy of the film "Flushed Away" onto the Internet after getting a copy from an Oscar voter faces a felony charge. Salvador Nunez Jr., 27, was charged with copyright... Read more...

Two charged with hacking LA traffic lights

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:00:10 +0000

Two men have been charged with illegal computer access after they allegedly hacked into the Los Angeles city traffic center to turn off traffic lights at four intersections last August. The two men, both engineers... Read more...

Man charged over click fraud scheme

Steven Parker — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:51:54 +0000

A US man has been charged with conspiracy, mail fraud and wire fraudover a 'click fraud' scheme allegedly carried out against an internetfirm that rewards subscribers who complete online surveys and viewbanner ads. ... Read more...

Major US Music Labels Charged with Price-fixing

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:09:54 +0000

According to a report by Red Herring, several major US music labels have been slammed with a class action lawsuit filled by San Diego lawyer William Lerach. The labels accused with price-fixing include Sony... Read more...

LA Men Charged With Piracy

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:51:11 +0000

Three Los Angeles men have been charged with conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The trio which consists of Jonathan Bryant and Jason Jones, owners of the ACME Game... Read more...

Chinese-American Engineer & Family Charged With Data Theft

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 01:46:32 +0000

A grand jury indictment filed on Tuesday alleges that Chi Mak, a lead engineer for Anaheim defense contractor Power Paragon, took computer disks containing sensitive information pertaining to several U.S. Navy projects and conspired with... Read more...

Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:33:21 +0000

Police have arrested a man for using someone else's wireless Internet network in one of the first criminal cases involving this fairly common practice. Benjamin Smith III, 41, faces a pretrial hearing... Read more...

Conn. Man Charged with Selling Secret Windows Code

Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:27:17 +0000

A Connecticut man was arrested on Tuesday on charges that he illegally sold a secret source code used for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 programs, federal prosecutors said. The Manhattan United States... Read more...

Two Enron Execs Charged in Broadband Fraud

Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:16:55 +0000

Federal authorities arrested and charged two Enron Corp. executives on Wednesday with fraud for allegedly creating $111 million in bogus earnings from a ballyhooed Internet video-on-demand venture that was a failure from its inception.... Read more...

Ex-IT worker charged with sabotage

Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:20:15 +0000

A former system administrator for UBS PaineWebber was arraigned in a New Jersey federal court Tuesday on charges of sabotaging two-thirds of the company's computer systems in an attempt to crash its stock price. ... Read more...

4 Charged in Internet Service Scam

Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:28:32 +0000

The owner of an Internet service company and three employees were charged yesterday with conspiring to steal millions of dollars from a federal program that provides Web access to disadvantaged schools. John Angelides,... Read more...

Alleged Hacker Charged In Australia

Mon, 18 Feb 2002 11:43:17 +0000

Thanks Darren Bolton for the heads up. After alleged break-ins to databases at Australia's No. 2 telco Optus, police raided a home in the Southeastern Sydney suburb of Kingsford, arrested a 21-year-old man... Read more...