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In New York City, U.S. district court judge Thomas Griesa expands the force of his existing remedial rulings in the ongoing litigation over the Argentine debt restructuring, blocking planned bond payments by Citigroup. The Citigroup processing of payments would violate a requirement that Argentina treat bondholders equally.
2015-03-12

Swede Alex Yucel pleads guilty in the United States to distributing Blackshades software that was used to hack into 500,000 computers worldwide.
2015-02-18

Fannie Mae files a lawsuit for $800 million against nine different banks, including Citigroup and Bank of America, for manipulating the Libor benchmark interest rate.
2013-11-1

South Korea issues a cyber alert after a hacking attack on a number of Government websites including the presidential Blue House site.
2013-06-25

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

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

Japanese electronics company Sony reduces sales and profit forecasts due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a computer hacking attack and slowing demand in the US and Europe.
2011-07-28

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 Lulz Security claims to have again compromised Sony's online security system and posted the results online.
2011-06-6

Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega moves to secure the Brazilian real amid concerns expressed in the "Financial Times" of currency manipulation by the United States, China and others.
2011-01-10