There’s an update to a case previously reported in February that I missed last month. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Minnesota: A Latvian man was sentenced today in Minneapolis for participating in a lucrative “scareware” hacking scheme that targeted visitors to the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s website. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of…
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Former govt contractor sentenced in “logic bomb” national security case
There’s what appears to be the final chapter in a case that was first reported in April, 2016. A contractor, Mittesh Das, who was convicted in September, 2017 for sabotaging an army program, was sentenced to two years in federal prison. Here’s the DOJ’s press release of September 11: GREENVILLE – The United States Attorney…
Operator of Counter Antivirus Service “Scan4you” Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison
I’m a few days late in posting this press release from the DOJ, but of note: A Latvian “non-citizen,” meaning a citizen of the former USSR who resided in Riga, Latvia, was sentenced to 168 months in prison today for offenses related to his operation of “Scan4you,” an online counter antivirus service that helped computer…
#Celebgate Phisher Who Hacked into More Than 225 Apple iCloud Accounts Sentenced to Prison
John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GEORGE GAROFANO, 26, of North Branford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to eight months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for engaging in a phishing scheme that gave him illegal access to…
Second Nigerian sentenced for phishing scam
Patrick McArdle reports: One of two Nigerians who admitted to being part of a conspiracy to steal personal information from Vermont state employees and other U.S. residents was sentenced Tuesday in Rutland federal court to time served, or 14 months in jail. Osariemen Isibor, 32, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in March to conspiracy…
Former JP Morgan Chase Bank Employee Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Selling Customer Account Information
August 10 – Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Peter Persaud, a former personal banker at JP Morgan Chase Bank, was sentenced by United States District Judge Eric N. Vitaliano to 48 months’ imprisonment for aggravated identity theft in connection with access device fraud. Persaud pleaded guilty to these charges on March 7, 2017….