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Rakhshan was sentenced to five years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $520,000 in restitution. He admitted to conspiring to launch a DDoS attack in January 2015, targeting Leagle.com, a legal aggregation site that had published information about Rakhshan's prior criminal conviction in Canada, and which was hosted by a provider located in Dallas, Texas.
Literal locked-down market biz Securus Technologies has settled a class-action lawsuit over illegally recorded prison phone calls, promising to improve its systems while avoiding a massive damages bill stretching to tens of millions of dollars. Two former prisoners and a criminal defense attorney sued the Texan company after it was revealed the prison communications provider had recorded more than 14,000 legally protected conversations between inmates and their lawyers in California.
Literal locked-down market biz Securus Technologies has settled a class-action lawsuit over illegally recorded prison phone calls, promising to improve its systems while avoiding a massive damages bill stretching to tens of millions of dollars. Two former prisoners and a criminal defense attorney sued the Texan company after it was revealed the prison communications provider had recorded more than 14,000 legally protected conversations between inmates and their lawyers in California.
A California man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for hacking an Atlanta-based company and trying to extort money in exchange for the return of the company's intellectual property. Kight accessed computer networks and servers of multiple companies and organizations in Georgia without authorization, prosecutors said.
The leaky bucket belongs to JailCore, a cloud-based app meant to manage correctional facilities, including by helping to ensure better compliance with insurance standards by doing things like tracking inmates' medications and activities. JailCore closed down the data leak between 15 and 16 January: 10 or 11 days after vpnMentor notified it about the breach.
A Stoke-on-Trent hospital administrator has avoided prison after hacking his NHS trust and helping himself to almost 9,000 heart scan images. As part of the police caution he agreed not to access any IT system within the hospital, not to enter the hospital unless he was ill or visiting a patient, and not to contact hospital staff unless asked to by the HR department.
A man accused of hacking UK National Lottery accounts via credential stuffing attacks has been sentenced to nine months in prison, the UK's National Crime Agency reported on Friday. According to the NCA, Batson used a tool called Sentry MBA to launch credential stuffing attacks on accounts belonging to National Lottery customers.
Authorities in Thailand say they are investigating an apparent online break-in by a computer hacker that allowed him to broadcast surveillance video from inside a prison in the country's south. read more
He claimed to have logins for millions of iCloud accounts, and told Apple he'd shut them all down unless he received a payoff.
A former contractor of British low-cost airline Jet2 has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for a cyberattack that shut down the airline’s systems for over 12 hours, the UK’s National Crime...