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Birmingham Crown Court (UK) has jailed a dark web pedophile for 32 years in prison. Matthew Falder, a 29-year-old former geophysics lecturer at the University of Birmingham was arrested in June 2017 from the university campus as a result of a huge and extensive four-year operation conducted by law enforcement authorities including British Police, Europol, FBI and UK’s […]
In October 2017, Gavin Paul Prince, 37, chief executive of VeriLet, a tenant eligibility service, was accused of five crimes including the hacking of the computer systems of his former employer Letsxl Ltd, changing system’s password, deleting important documents and emails from three separate accounts. At that time Prince had denied all allegations and any […]
An ex-Kentucky high school principal Stephen Kyle Goodlett has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for uploading nude pictures of a student and sending it to a pornography trading site in Russia called anon-ib or anonymous image board. The pictures were stolen from a confiscated mobile phone that was in the custody of […]
The 40-year-old David Ryan Burchard from Merced, a dark web vendor California has been sentenced to six years in prison for selling illegal drugs on several dark web marketplaces including Silk Road, AlphaBay, Agora, and Abraxas. Burchard who went by the online handle of “Caliconnect” on the dark web was arrested in March 2016, and initially was pleaded not guilty […]
An innocent man was shot dead by a police officer after a Call of Duty gamer pranked authorities into giving fake addresses of a 28-year-old father. Andrew Finch, a 28-year-old father from Kansas was shot dead on Thursday by a police officer after a Call of Duty gamer called Swat team and tipped them about a bogus shooting incident The […]
Bitcoin is one of those cryptocurrencies whose value has rapidly increased making it a lucrative target for cybercriminals and hackers. That is the reason we often read about scams including malware, phishing or malicious apps aiming at cryptocurrency exchanges and investors. Kidnapping On December 26th, 2017, Russian blockchain expert Pavel Lerner, one of the employees at Exmo cryptocurrency was kidnapped in Kiev, […]
As you might know, the value of Bitcoin suddenly increased this month and that motivated hackers to target cryptocurrency exchanges and steal user funds or shut down their service so no one can withdraw their funds. But those who cannot hack or mine cryptocurrency are physically assaulting people for it. According to the Manhattan District […]
A 27-year-old man from Ann Arbor, Michigan hacked into the government computer system of Washtenaw County Jail and altered inmate records so his friend could be released early. But it all backfired on him when the prison staff detected changes in their record and prevented any prisoner from being released before time. Konrads Voits who pleaded guilty in federal […]
A Tenafly High School student from Bergen County, New Jersey, is being accused of breaching the security of his school’s computer system in order to change his grades hoping to get admission into an Ivy League college. For those who are not familiar with what an Ivy League college is, it’s a group of eight […]
A surveillance video shared by West Midlands Police, United Kingdom shows car hacking thieves stole a Mercedes within a few seconds without keys and even without touching the vehicle – Thanks to a relay device. A relay box is an electrically operated switch which works in such a way that other than the metal it can detect and […]
Would you not like to track the traveling patterns of your friends or foes if given a chance? Of course, you would. A majority of us would want to find out where someone traveled to such as the destination planned for next trip or where the person has flown, etc. Now, a person is selling […]
The latest WWE celebrity to have her privacy invaded is 35-year-old Mary Louis Kanellis who goes by her ring name of Maria Kanellis. The immensely popular Diva made her WWE debut in 2004 and made a comeback in June 2017, but now the bad news is that hackers have leaked personal and private photos of her online. […]
An ex-wrestler and student of the University of Iowa is accused of conducting a cheating scheme to obtain test copies in advance and changing his and his classmates’ grades multiple times. The FBI has arrested the 22-year old Trevor Graves on federal computer-hacking charges for which he faces at least ten years in jail. Graves […]
A Clayton County, Georgia, high school played pornographic content on its TV monitor in the presence of students during lunch leaving them baffled. One of the students, a 10th grader, took a photo of the monitor screen and texted it to her mother (Daphne Raines) who told WPXI that the image was “too graphic to show.” Raines, […]
On Friday a New Town, Massachusetts based man called Ryan Lin was arrested for cyberstalking after his VPN logs were provided by PureVPN. Lin was accused of cyberstalking his ex-roommate 24-year old Jennifer Smith. Initially, the case was handled by the Waltham Police department, but it was then transferred to the FBI [PDF]. According to the […]
Dark web is home to explicit and illegal content including child pornography sites which are often in the news once they get busted. But then there are platforms run by police or security agencies, for example, notorious website Playpen which was run by the FBI for an undercover operation. However, now it turns out that Australian police ran […]
Russian Lawmaker’s Son Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud and Identity Theft Charges. In April 2017 HackRead.com reported how the 32-year Russian hacker Roman Seleznev received the longest ever sentence in the history of US for hacking point-of-sale computers to steal information from 1.7 million credit cards and causing losses of 170million USD. He was sentenced to 27 years […]
Former Cop and Child Porn Suspect Might Remain in Jail Forever for Contempt of Court. Francis Rawls has remained in prison since 30th September 2015 for refusing to abide by the judicial order of decrypting two hard drives owned by him. These hard drives supposedly contain crucial evidence of child-porn and were confiscated from Rawls’ residence. […]
Law enforcement authorities in India have arrested four people for leaking the unreleased episode of HBO’s (Home Box Office ) popular Games of Thrones (GOT) TV series. GOT, since season one has been in the news for being one of the most pirated tv shows in the history. But season seven of the series made […]
In 2015, a 60-year-old man Robert D. Jackson from Georgetown Kentucky had his house raided by investigators who discovered a laptop in the middle of downloading child pornography. Jackson was then arrested in December that year and indicted by a jury in August 2016. In May 2017 Jackson pleaded guilty to two counts of child porn distribution and 25 counts of possession. […]
Authorities believe he is part of a larger bomb-threat-for-hire scheme on the Dark Web Jewish centers received over a hundred bomb threats this year due to which there was chaos among local organizations. These incidents raised concerns within the US as it generated a sentiment that anti-Semitic violence in the country was on the rise. […]