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A laptop repair engineer caught trying to hack into the bank account of an undercover Sky News reporter after stealing login details from her machine, has been sentenced to nine months in jail.
06 August 2010
The Metropolitan Police's Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) has arrested six people accused of phishing the details of more than 20,000 online banking and credit card accounts before using the information to steal millions of pounds.
04 August 2010
An Australian man accused of infecting over 3000 computers with malware designed to steal banking and credit card details has pleaded guilty, according to local reports.
27 July 2010
A UK member of parliament (MP) is calling for an end to anonymity for pre-paid credit cards when they are used to buy online child pornography.
21 July 2010
A computer technician has pleaded guilty to stealing the personal information of 2000 former colleagues at the Bank of New York Mellon and using it to pilfer over $1.1 million from charities, non-profit groups and other institutions.
05 July 2010
A counterclaim lawsuit brought by Investment Technology Group (ITG) against Liquidnet after the latter sued for patent infringement has been dropped.
30 June 2010
A US court has ruled a man cannot call his online English language tutoring business "eVisa" because it dilutes the trademark of card giant Visa, according to Reuters.
29 June 2010
After a year of failed attempts, the FBI has admitted defeat in its attempts to crack the encryption codes protecting hard drives belonging to a prominent Brazilian banker arrested in connection with a money laundering investigation.
28 June 2010
Spain has become the latest country to tap data stolen from HSBC's Swiss private banking arm by an IT employee to hunt down tax evaders.
25 June 2010
UK police have arrested two teenagers as part of an investigation into what is believed to be the biggest English language cybercrime forum in the world.
23 June 2010
Members of a criminal gang that stole card details by tampering with chip and PIN terminals at petrol stations throughout southern England have been jailed.
22 June 2010
Police in 12 countries have arrested 178 people accused of involvement in an international credit card cloning ring that is believed to have netted crooks around EUR20 million.
16 June 2010
A former Bank of America call centre worker has pleaded guilty to stealing high-net worth customer account information and trying to sell it.
09 June 2010
Crooks hacked into a New York Department of Education electronic bank account used for petty cash and stole around $644,000 over a four-year timeframe.
08 June 2010
Romanian police have detained 20 members of a gang accused of manufacturing and selling ATM skimmers.
04 June 2010
PlainsCapital Bank has settled a lawsuit it bought against one of its own business customers after crooks stole over $800,000 from the company's account.
21 May 2010
Italian police have launched a tax evasion investigation based on data stolen from HSBC's Swiss private banking arm by an IT employee, after being given a list of around 7000 account holders by French counterparts.
20 May 2010
Heartland Payment Systems has agreed to pay up to $41.4 million to MasterCard issuers in relation to the data breach that hit the processor in 2008.
Five UK men have been jailed for a money laundering scam that saw stolen credit card details used to buy iTunes vouchers that were then sold on eBay.
17 May 2010
Neo, the Latvian hacker who stole millions of classified tax documents from government computers and leaked the information via Twitter, has been caught by police.
14 May 2010
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