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
Hackers steal the personal information of about 15 million T-Mobile US customers and applicants. The breach is at a unit of the credit agency Experian. 2015-10-2
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
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
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
Alleged personal details of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair are published online by computer hackers. 2011-06-25
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
Web sites associated with the Government of Malaysia are hacked according to a deadline set by the Anonymous group. 2011-06-16
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