Major Cases

Major cyber crime cases over the years.

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  • A Byte Out of History: $10 Million Hack

    A Russian’s hacking of a U.S. bank in 1994 may have been the first online bank robbery.

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  • Cyber Criminal Forum Taken Down

    Spanning 20 countries, Operation Shrouded Horizon has dismantled an online criminal forum.

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  • Melissa Virus

    A few decades ago, computer viruses were still relatively new notions to most Americans, but the fast-moving and destructive Melissa virus changed that in a significant way and showed many the darker side of the web.

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  • Morris Worm

    In 1988, a graduate student unleashed the first major attack on the Internet and became the first person convicted of a new type of crime.

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  • Operation Innocent Images

    In 1993, agents working a missing child case discovered something startling: pedophiles were transmitting sexually explicit images of minors via the Internet.

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