Sources: Business Insider
"Smart Sheriff", the most widely used child surveillance mobile app in South Korea, is pulled from the market after specialists raised serious concerns about the program's safety. Security experts say its programming left the door wide open to hackers and put the personal information of some 380,000 users at risk. The country's April 2015 law requires all new smartphones sold to those 18 and under have software parents can use to monitor their kids' social media activity. 2015-11-1
Mt Gox, an exchange of central importance in the history of the crypto currency bitcoin, closes down for an indefinite period under pressure from hackers. 2014-02-24
A New Jersey attorney announces the largest alleged commercial hacking and data breach scheme ever prosecuted in the United States. 2013-07-25
"The New York Times" publishes allegations that a Chinese People's Liberation Army unit called PLA Unit 61398 may be the source of hacking attacks on the West. 2013-02-19
Authorities are investigating how a hacker obtained access to the e-mail accounts of George H. W. Bush as well as several of the former U.S. President's relatives and close friends. 2013-02-8
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrests suspected members of the computer hacking groups LulzSec and Anonymous in the US cities of Phoenix, Arizona and San Francisco. 2011-09-22
Sixteen alleged members of the computer hacking group Anonymous are arrested in FBI raids across several states in the US. 2011-07-19
Hacker group LulzSec releases material belonging to the Department of Public Safety in the US state of Arizona in response to immigration law SB 1070. 2011-06-23
CNET reports that a group of computer hackers is planning another cyberattack against Sony over its handling of the PlayStation Network outage. 2011-05-6
Sony advises that hackers may have stolen personal details of 24.6 million users of Sony Online Entertainment resulting in the site closing. 2011-05-2