Amazon.com faces a class action lawsuit (below) over cyber theft of personal account data from more than 24 million customers that did business with the company's Zappos.com unit. A Kentucky law firm filed the lawsuit against Zappos.com just one day after the footwear e-tailer's servers storing customer account information were…
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A federal indictment unsealed today alleges that a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a Connecticut resident who "was affiliated with Anonymous" brought down KISS band member Gene Simmons' web site last year. The felony charges allege that Poe and other unnamed co-conspirators used an open source software program to send…
A juror who tweeted during a murder trial, and while he and his fellow jurors deliberated, led the Arkansas Supreme Court to reverse the conviction of a 26-year-old death row inmate. While there were other factors that led the court to send the case back for a new trial, the…
A Brooklyn jury acquitted a man accused of gun possession charges after his criminal defense lawyers discovered a treasure trove of derogatory, racist digital evidence on a Facebook group created by NYPD officers. According to the New York Times, police officers who did not want to work at New York…
A 21-year-old man from Idaho, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, faces federal charges for attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama. Under 18 U.S.C. § 1751(c), Ortega-Hernandez could be sentenced for a term of up to life in prison if convicted of the charges. According to the FBI affidavit attached to the criminal…