The first one I can think of is The WANK worm in 1989. Some hacker created to attack NASA. It did quite a few damages and it's cost was in millions of dollars.

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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The one that pops into mind are nigerian 419 scams, in which the victim receives an email say they have won or acquired large amounts of cash and in order to move the funds they require credit or bank account information. Most of these scams come from Nigeria and many people that fall into these scams lose $100 to $20,000 on average.

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.
Source(s):
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp

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Child porn =(
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I think I'll post you a few links to sites that have a lot of historical data and examples. They may not be exactly what you are looking for but you can go over the sites and see :)

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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This is not only a syber terrorism but also a great humanity that hacking in hospitals database and changing prescription of a patient for killing him.A leader attacked by a bomber and get into hospital then hackers hacked in that hospitals database and changed his prescription so that he died.After that the hackers again hacked that computer and again changed his prescription as actual prescription.

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.
Source(s):
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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http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/sexual_assault/child_sex_offenders/13.html
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