I am looking for interesting cyber crimes that stick out in your mind.
The first case should deal with a Canadian US or other country with similar legal system crime involving single or few computers and the second case should involve the Internet or a crime using a network that occurred across many countries or a large geographical area.
I will also tip people who give interesting answers that isn't chosen as the best.
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John Schiefer is currently serving 48 months in prison for creating a malware.
http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/03/security-admin-botmaster-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison.ars
Interestingly, Schiefer was a programmer at Mahalo and heped to build this great system.
http://calacanis.com/2009/03/05/why-i-employed-a-felon/
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M$
Oh this one looked like I could spend hours here
http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/archives.html
and this one has very up to date news etc about cyber crime
http://www.crime-research.org/
.......for example this was one of their stories
http://www.crime-research.org/news/2004/01/Mess2701.html
good luck hunting for something novel and unique
oh! gotta go
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M$
First link provides about hospitals computer hacking.
You are looking just two crime but I can't because all of these crimes are so memorable
Kevin mitnik, his crime is not possible describe in short please see his hacking history,,,may be he is a greatest hacker in world.
David smith, creator of melisa warm. This warm attacked about 300 great corporate organization like microsoft, intel,sun and many other.....This warm harm about $80 millions.
Robert moris, cretor of moris warm it attacked thousand of computer very quickly ....
Now a days Chinese hacker are attacking in to USA government's website and CIA's site.They also hacked into indian embassy to steal dalai lama's profile and australian biggest film festival website.
Please view this site to get a huge information about hacking in USA's website.
http://www.squidoo.com/harm
http://www.bluepointsecurity.com/aggregator?page=2
http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/misc/hack/timeline.htm
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/chinese-hack-into-indian-embassi...
http://resources.bnet.com/topic/attack+and+hacking.html
http://resources.bnet.com/topic/attack+and+hacking.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8169123.stm
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M$
Another one that annoys me is fake goods, imported mostly from china and traded via eBay. Although, the buyer may not be the victims, the companies that make the legitimate items lose money because they cannot compete with the prices of the fake goods.
These may sound boring without your average "evil" hackers with shaded glasses working in a dark room with computers, but they are interesting if you take a deeper look.
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Another one I can think of that happened recently is the Denial of service attack targeting twitter and Facebook.
Here's an extra one just in case, in 1999 the Ministry of Defense satellite was hacked, possibly by Southern England.
The interesting thing about theses attacks is that no one got caught and no one knows who the attackers were- still.
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M$
Great! I'm glad that this was the one you picked!
I sure would be interested to read your report after it's done.
Silly proofreading
"John Schiefer is currently serving 48 months in prison for creating a botnet that spread malware."
I'm thinking I am going to go with this one. I guess I didn't pick it soon enough as the best answer tho.