Dozens of people are arrested as Interpol targets a global hacking network. CNN's Atika Shubert reports.
Top members of the computer hacker group "Anonymous" and its offshoots were arrested and charged Tuesday after a wide-ranging investigation used the help of a group leader who was working as a secret government informant.
In the U.S. government's biggest crackdown to date on a hacktivist group calling itself "Anonymous," four leaders and one other activist were arrested Tuesday and charged with a computer hacking conspiracy.
Police in Europe and South America have arrested 25 alleged members of the "Anonymous" hacking group, Interpol said, amid a suspected attack on its own website by the group's supporters.
The publisher of Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News of the World tabloid paid out hundreds of thousands of pounds Wednesday to settle lawsuits over phone hacking from celebrities and politicians, including a former Tony Blair spokesman.
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's e-mail may have been hacked by private investigators working for British newspapers when he was the country's top finance official, the Independent newspaper reported Monday.
CNN's Dan Rivers outlines the evidence Piers Morgan gave to the Leveson Inquiry into British press ethics.
Divided into two teams, cyber attackers and cyber defenders get a lesson in an "attack" on critical infrastructure.
The Florida man faces more than 100 years in prison on federal hacking charges
Michael Calce once briefly shut down this site.
CNN's Brian Todd reports on a massive cyberspying operation targeting dozens of governments and companies worldwide.
South Korean police arrested five men Thursday for allegedly collaborating with North Korean computer experts to hack into online game systems to generate millions of dollars in illicit gains.
With a few thousand bucks, a tool box and some technical skill, you could bring about the cyber apocalypse.
Repeated and constant cyber attacks against the United States have turned the country's assessment of national security threats on its head.
Anonymous, the hacker collective that supports whistleblower site WikiLeaks, posted an "official communique" to PayPal and its customers on Tuesday, urging people to close their accounts with the online payment service.
For one day, at least, you can call off the cyberwar.
A British man charged with attacks on three websites is due to appear in court Thursday, Scotland Yard said.
Hundreds of personal Gmail accounts, including those of some senior U.S. government officials, were hacked as a result of a massive phishing scheme originating from China, Google said Wednesday.
CNN's John Vause speaks with Andrew Lih about cyber attacks on Google Gmail accounts.
CNN's Brian Todd looks into the second cyber attack against an Iranian nuclear facility and who may be responsible.
Leon Walker, a Detroit, Michigan, computer technician, faces a jury trial in February for allegedly hacking into his then-wife's e-mail account.
A Michigan man is charged with a 5-year felony for checking his estranged wife's email.
Popular news and gossip blog network Gawker fell victim this weekend to hackers: Over 1 million usernames and passwords were exposed by a group of hackers who posted a 500 MB file of the private data on a file-sharing site.
Gawker Media, the blog powerhouse built by Nick Denton, has been hacked.
Amazon dumped the controversial site WikiLeaks from its computer servers on Wednesday.
Brian Todd reports on a James Bond-like cave in Sweden which now hosts some of Wikileaks' servers.
After posting thousands of secret government documents, WikiLeaks came under an electronic attack designed to make it unavailable to users, the whistle-blower website said Tuesday.
Adrian Lamo, the former computer hacker who tipped off federal authorities to WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning, says two men in the Boston area have told Lamo in phone conversations that they assisted Manning.
A computer hacker responsible for creating and operating a massive scam that infected as many as 12 million computers worldwide has been identified and arrested, authorities said Wednesday.
Though the majority of children agree that computer hacking is wrong, more than a quarter of those in England have tried it, a survey released Thursday found.
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