A bulk e-mailer who looted more than a billion records with personal information from a data warehouse has been sentenced to eight years in prison, US prosecutors said on Wednesday.
The man who received only a suspended sentence after hacking into the Optus network and accessing the account details of more than 400,000 users has been convicted on appeal in a move welcomed by the law enforcement community.
Notorious computer hacker Kevin Mitnick went online Tuesday for the first time in nearly a decade.
A Queensland court has sentenced a local computer hacker to two years jail.
A Northern Territory hacker who allegedly caused millions of dollars of damage to government systems this week blamed segregation and 'stress' for his crime.
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