In his first statement since his arrest, Pavel Durov blames French authorities, yet he promises to do more to stop criminals abusing Telegram.
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Popular messenger app Telegram insists it complies with EU law and claims that its detained CEO Pavel Durov has nothing to hide. The platform is known for ignoring authorities and even the media.
Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder and CEO of the popular Telegram messaging app, was reportedly arrested in France this evening.
The West Midlands Police, in cooperation with the NCA and FBI, have arrested a 17-year-old boy in Walsall, UK, on suspicion of participating in ransomware attacks against US-based companies.
Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in The Bahamas at the request of the United States. It's likely that the U.S. will ask for him to be extradited to face charges related to FTX's mismanagement.
Dutch authorities have arrested a suspected developer of Tornado Cash, an Ethereum mixing service. It comes after the U.S. sanctioned the service for allegedly mixing criminally gained crypto.
A man from Nashville, Tennessee has been arrested for tracking his girlfriend's whereabouts by attaching his Apple Watch to her car's wheel and then using the Life360 app to track her location.
A 27-year-old has been arrested for selling altered save data for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The item had a price tag of $32 and included any perks and stats desired by the buyer.
Graham Ivan Clark, a 17-year-old teen, has been arrested and charged with 30 felony counts in connection with the Twitter hack. He reaped more than $100,000 in Bitcoin in just one day.
Huawei has announced that it has fired an employee that was arrested on Friday on espionage charges. The firm said it wants to distance itself from the individual and his alleged crimes.
Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou has been arrested in Canada at the behest of U.S. law enforcement for allegedly violating sanctions against Iran. Huawei claims that it is not aware of any wrongdoing.
A 33-year-old man from California has been arrested due to intimidating e-mails sent to FCC chairman Ajit Pai which threatened his family's lives following the vote to repeal net neutrality rules.
Facebook has apologized, after a translation provided by its AI led Israeli police to arrest and question a Palestinian man, who they thought was about to launch an attack with his bulldozer.
A malware operator named Sergey Vovnenko was recently sentenced to 41 months in prison after managing a malware botnet that was able to infect computers, whose data were stolen and sold online.
Samsung Group's vice chairman Jay Y. Lee could not escape arrest for a second time, after prosecutors presented evidence in court that Lee was hiding assets and could destroy evidence.
Russian authorities are charging three men with treason for favoring interests from the United States. One of them is a Kaspersky Lab employee and the other two are senior FSB cybersecurity agents.
Popular torrenting website KickassTorrents was recently seized, as part of an order by the US Department of Justice. Its alleged owner, Artem Vaulin, was also arrested in his hometown in Poland.
Police investigating the recent TalkTalk cyberattack arrested a second teenager yesterday. But TalkTalk now admits that thousands of customers' banking details which were hacked were also unencrypted.
An 18-year-old man has been arrested in the UK, and computing equipment confiscated, as part of a joint investigation with the FBI into recent attacks against Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network.
China has cracked down on what it calls "internet rumor-mongering," detaining 85 people and punishing 16 websites for falsely spreading rumors about everything from earthquakes to violence.
Peter Sunde, co-founder of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, has been arrested in Sweden following almost two years on the run, after being sentenced to prison for copyright violations.
A man who bought an Apple iPad from the UK's largest retailer was shocked to find nothing but clay in the box - and even more surprised to be arrested on suspicion of fraud after requesting a refund.
Developer Bohemia Interactive now says that the two ArmA III team members who were arrested on spy charges in Greece were on holiday, rather than conducting research into the upcoming military shooter
In a case of extreme silliness, an Illinois man was arrested this week after he called his local 911 number five times in order to complain that his iPhone was no longer working.
While Lulzsec took the spotlight yesterday afternoon in its successful defacement of The Sun’s website, displaying an article that claimed Rupert Murdoch had died, the FBI was busy following through on search warrants in NY...
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange turned himself in to British authorities earlier today and is now being held without bail, according to a report from TechCrunch. The embattled frontman for whistle-blowers everywhere remains in jail while...
A Dutch teenager has been arrested for allegedly stealing virtual furniture from "rooms" in Habbo Hotel, a 3D social networking website. The 17-year-old is accused of stealing 4,000 euros (£2,840) worth of virtual furniture, bought...
Germany's Federal Crime Office has arrested a Russian-Ukrainian-German group of 10 suspects accused of running a Trojan horse phishing attack that has been targeting users' bank accounts. An 18-month police investigation culminated in arrests on...
Spanish police have arrested a 28-year-old man on suspicion of creating and spreading a virus that affected more than 115,000 high-end mobile phones. According to a police statement, the man was detained in the eastern...
A video clip posted on YouTube has helped Canadian police in the investigation of a nightclub murder.Police in the southern Canadian city of Hamilton posted a clip from club surveillance cameras onto the popular naff...
A media rights group has identified a third dissident that the Chinese government arrested based on information seemingly supplied by a Yahoo subsidiary. On Wednesday, Reporters Without Borders announced that it has obtained a copy...
Filesharers in Hong Kong have been sent a warning about their activities after the first arrest for sharing copyrighted files. Authorities there have arrested a 38-year-old man for allegedly sharing copyrighted material over the internet...
TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- In a rare police crackdown on Internet file-sharing, two Japanese men were arrested for allegedly disseminating movies and games with software that claimed to protect users' identities. The arrests -- only...
Italian police have arrested 14 suspected hackers who are accused of thousands of computer intrusions, including attacks on the U.S. Army and Navy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Italy's financial police, the Guardia...
