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
A New Jersey attorney announces the largest alleged commercial hacking and data breach scheme ever prosecuted in the United States. 2013-07-25
Former LulzSec hacker Cody Andrew Kretsinger is sentenced to a year in jail for a 2011 cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment. 2013-04-20
Several BBC Twitter accounts are hacked including its Weather, Arabic and Radio Ulster feeds by a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army. 2013-03-21
Law enforcement agencies in the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland arrest alleged senior members of the computer hacking group Lulz Sec, including a member of the FBI. 2012-03-6
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
The so-called "LulzSec" hackers have reportedly disbanded after a final data dump including information from AOL Inc. and AT&T. 2011-06-26
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
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