Web designers admit to trashing client's Web site
The CEO of Seattle-area consulting company Minecode faces prison time for destroying a customer's Web site.
Software executive sentenced for hacking
The president of a U.S. software company has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to stealing password-protected files from a competitor.
Former inmate arrested for breaking into prison's IT systems
Francis Janosko, a former inmate at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility in Massachusetts who was arrested by the FBI last week in North Carolina for allegedly accessing systems on the prison's computer network without authorization and stealing confidential data.
Report: 'Foreign entity' hacked Obama, McCain PCs
Computer systems used by the election campaigns of both Barack Obama and John McCain were broken into earlier this year, and a large number of files related to the evolving policy positions of the two candidates were stolen.
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