News tagged with email account

Celebrity hacker pleads guilty in US court deal

A 35-year-old computer hacker pleaded guilty Monday to breaking into the email accounts of stars including Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis, and was taken in custody.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Activists Anonymous hack New Zealand FM's email: report

Online activist group Anonymous hacked New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully's private email account and used it to send messages mocking him, it was reported Wednesday.

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created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life

(AP) -- Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker. For most people, that word means something malicious - shady criminals who listen in on private voicemails, or anonymous villains ...

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created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

NY man suing Facebook fined $5,000 by court

(AP) -- A New York man who's suing for part ownership of Facebook has been fined $5,000 by a federal judge for failing to fully comply with an order to turn over his email account information.

Technology / Business

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Anonymous releases more Stratfor data

Online "hacktivist" group Anonymous has released a trove of email addresses and credit card numbers stolen from the website of intelligence analysis firm Stratfor and promised further attacks.

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created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Hackers post UN staffer user names, passwords

A hackers group calling itself "Team Poison" has posted what it says are the user names and passwords of more than 100 United Nations staffers' email accounts it pulled from a U.N. computer server.

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created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

73,000 Finnish web users' details hacked: police

The login details of 73,000 users of a popular Finnish family-oriented discussion forum were stolen and posted online in the latest in a series of widespread hacking attacks, police said Monday.

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created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The high price of data breaches

As consumers, we transmit valuable personal information to the companies with which we do business. In doing so, we trust that information will remain secure. Over the past year, however, we have learned of a number of instances ...

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created Nov 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Public Wi-Fi convenient, but risky

It seems you can surf the Internet and check your email from virtually anywhere these days - in coffee shops, hotel lobbies, airport terminals and airplane cabins.

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Romania eBay hacker gets suspended sentence

A Romanian court on Wednesday handed a three-year suspended sentence to a hacker accused of causing auction website eBay millions of dollars in losses by illegally accessing its email accounts.

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created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Suspect pleads not guilty to celebrity hacking

A Florida man pleaded not guilty to hacking into the emails of Scarlett Johansson, Christina Aguilera, Mila Kunis and other celebrities, following his arrest last month.

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created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hacker to appear in LA court over celebrity hacking

A Florida computer hacker was ordered Friday to appear in a Los Angeles courtroom on November 1 after he entered no plea during a federal court appearance on Friday, court officials said.

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created Oct 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US tracked email of Wikileaks volunteer: report

US authorities have obtained a secret court order to force search giant Google and a small Internet provider to hand over information from email accounts of a volunteer for whistleblower website WikiLeaks, ...

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created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 17

Texas-based defense contractor hacked by Anonymous

(AP) -- A Texas-based defense and aerospace firm says one of its top officials has had his email account broken into by the hacking group Anonymous.

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created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Police: Dozens of teens involved in Vt. sext ring

(AP) -- Police in Vermont say nearly two dozen teenagers used school computers and a special email account to access indecent photos and videos taken by female classmates.

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created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1