(credit: Bob Jagendorf) A Florida teenager accused of orchestrating one of last year’s Twitter hacks—this one used celebrity accounts to make more than $100,000 in a cryptocurrency scam—pleaded guilty on Tuesday in exchange for a three-year sentence, it was widely reported. Authorities said that Graham Ivan Clark, now 18, and two other men used social […]
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Ticketmaster pays $10 million criminal fine for hacking a rival company
(credit: Pixy) Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million criminal fine after admitting its employees repeatedly used stolen passwords and other means to hack a rival ticket sales company. The fine, which is part of a deferred prosecution agreement Ticketmaster entered with federal prosecutors, resolves criminal charges filed last week in federal court in […]
Two men charged with Hacking on Social Networking Reports of NFL and NBA players
Expand / / The Department of Justice seal {} during a media conference at December 2019. (charge: Samuel Corum | Getty Images) Federal governments have accused two guys of hacking on the email and societal networking reports of numerous athletes together using all the National Football League and the National Basketball Association and {} or […]