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United States v Nada Nadim Prouty, c. 2010. [27] Prouty was an FBI and CIA agent who was prosecuted for having a fraudulent marriage to get US residency. She claims she was persecuted by a U.S. attorney who was trying to gain media coverage by calling her a terrorist agent and get himself promoted to a federal judgeship. [28] United States v.
the prosecution of infamous hackers such as Albert Gonzalez, [2] who led a hacking ring that stole over 40 million debit and credit card numbers by infiltrating major payment processor and retail networks across the country,
United States v. Drew , 259 F.R.D. 449 (C.D. Cal. 2009), [ 1 ] was an American federal criminal case in which the U.S. government charged Lori Drew with violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) over her alleged cyberbullying of her 13-year-old neighbor, Megan Meier , who had died of suicide.
The Supreme Court has ruled that a police officer who searched a license plate database for an acquaintance in exchange for cash did not violate U.S. hacking laws. The landmark ruling concludes a ...
In United States of America v.Aaron Swartz, Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist, was prosecuted for multiple violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA), after downloading academic journal articles through the MIT computer network from a source for which he had an account as a Harvard research fellow.
The crime group allegedly sold a popular hacking tool known as Warzone RAT for less than $200, which made it easier for people all over the world to steal personal and financial data that could be ...
A pair of accused jewel thieves were caught lounging at a four-star Miami Beach hotel just days after police said they walked off with $1.7 million in valuables from a Tennessee retailer.
In the United States, breaches may be investigated by government agencies such as the Office for Civil Rights, the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). [78] Law enforcement agencies may investigate breaches [79] although the hackers responsible are rarely caught. [80]