Collaborate Disseminate
The dead drops were very James Bond: once, the data mule taped the SD card to the underside of a desk in a hotel. Continue reading Tour guide/Chinese spy gets four years for SD card dead drops
We don’t care how little you made from your crimes, the judge said. We care that you went after an outfit that gives a ton to charities. Continue reading Lottery hacker gets 9 months for his £5 cut of the loot
Nghia Hoang Pho may not have had malicious intent, but removal of the materials forced the NSA to abandon years of signals collection work. Continue reading NSA staffer takes top-secret hacking tools home ‘to study’, gets 66 months
A citizen of the former USSR who had been living in Riga, Latvia faces three charges related to his operation of “Scan4you,” an online counter-antivirus service that helped hackers dodge anti-malware solutions, the US Department of Justice … Continue reading Russian hacker gets 35 years in prison for running counter-AV service
Roman Seleznev, the son of a Russian MP, has received the longest ever sentence for hacking to be handed down in the US Continue reading Russian ‘pioneer’ of identity theft and card fraud jailed for 27 years
Chris Correa, ex-scouting director for the Cardinals, was sentenced for breaching the Astros’ internal database and email. Continue reading Baseball scouting exec gets 46 months for guessing rival team’s password
Sanford Wallace was also fined $310,628 for sending over 27 million spams and ripping off half a million Facebook account logins. Continue reading Facebook “Spam King” gets 2.5 years in the slammer
He was found guilty of handing over login credentials for the newspaper, after which it was defaced. 
Continue reading Matthew Keys gets 2 years for helping Anonymous deface the LA Times
Matthew Keys was convicted of handing over login credentials for a website and then telling Anonymous to “go f**k some s**t up.”
Continue reading Feds ask for 5 years jail for journalist who handed over newspaper login