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Patel told the court that Mangham stole "invaluable" intellectual property when he "unlawfully accessed and hacked into the social media website Facebook and its computers in April to May last year from his bedroom in Yorkshire." Mangh

Glenn Mangham: Facebook Hacker Gets 8 Months in Jail

Glenn Mangham, a 26-year-old software development student from Cornlands Road, York in Great Britain, was sentenced to eight months in jail after he admitted hacking into Facebook from his bedroom in his parents' house between April and May 2011.
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Romanian Man Charged with Hacking NASA Computers

A Romanian man accused of hacking into NASA computers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles under the online moniker "Iceman" has been indicted on a federal charge, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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News Corp admits guilt, settles hacking claims

The British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp looks set to settle at great expense a string of legal claims after admitting wide-scale phone hacking that was both known about and concealed by senior management.
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Victims say News Corp has admitted hacking cover-up

The British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has acknowledged to victims that executives covered up the scale of illegal activity by destroying evidence and lying to investigators, victims' lawyers said on Thursday.
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Symantec: 2006 hacking led to source code theft

Symantec Corp, the world's biggest maker of antivirus software, said that hackers breached its networks in 2006, stealing source code to its flagship security programs and three other products.
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Stratfor Hackers Publish Email, Password Data Online

Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous group published hundreds of thousands of email addresses belonging to subscribers of private intelligence-analysis firm Strategic Forecasting Inc., along with thousands of customer credit-card numbers.
Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov gestures during a television interview in Moscow

Phone hacking Russian style: Opposition under fire

In a sign Vladimir Putin's allies may be getting serious about tackling the biggest protests of his 12-year rule, a loyal media outlet has published telephone calls of an opposition leader laced with profanities denigrating colleagues and followers.
If passed, NDAA would allow the military to detain anyone on the Internet who it believes "threatens" national security, including activists and independent news sites.

NDAA Bill Aims to Suppress Internet Freedom

The NDAA Bill 2012 contains language that allows the Pentagon to wage cyberwar against any domestic enemies of the state, including activists and independent news outlets.
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Facebook Accounts Hacking: Users Vigilantism Goes Viral

Facebook has been battling with hacking and spam-related issues for the last one month. The number of Facebook users who are falling prey to the unwanted Trojan spamware and sexual and violent content are increasing day by day.
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Emails warned James Murdoch on extent of hacking

A British Parliamentary committee on Tuesday published a sequence of e-mails which raised questions about the story News Corp's James Murdoch told to House of Commons legislators about what he knew about phone hacking allegations involving the now-defunct News of the World and when he knew it.
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Nexon pushes ahead with IPO, hacking impact looms

Online gaming firm Nexon Co said on Monday it would raise up to 98 billion yen ($1.3 billion) in an initial public offering this month, pushing ahead with its planned listing even as a massive hacking attack threatens to dampen excitement for the stock.
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Nexon Pushes Ahead with IPO as Hacking Impact Looms

Online gaming firm Nexon Co said on Monday it would raise up to 98 billion yen ($1.3 billion) in an initial public offering this month, pushing ahead with its planned listing even as a massive hacking attack threatens to dampen excitement for the stock.
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Four Arrested in Philippines in AT&T Hacking Probe

Four people have been arrested in the Philippines for allegedly hacking into AT&T's phone system in order to funnel money to a Saudi-based terrorist organization, according to the country's Criminal Investigation and Detection Group.
British actress Sienna Miller arrives at the Leveson Inquiry into media practices at the High Court in central London November 24, 2011.

Sienna Miller Tells of Hacking Paranoia

Actress Sienna Miller said on Thursday she had been placed under a web of surveillance by a tabloid newspaper which listened into her messages and read emails, prompting her to accuse family and friends of leaking stories to the press.
British actor Hugh Grant (C) arrives at the Leveson Inquiry at the High Court in central London, November 21, 2011.

UK Phone-Hacking Victims Condemn Intrusion

The parents of a murdered British schoolgirl pleaded on Monday for the country's newspapers to curb practices such as phone hacking and covert photography as a public inquiry into media standards turned the spotlight on the celebrity obsessed press.

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