They've become a part of the pop-culture landscape: sexy, private shots of celebrities (your Scarletts, your Milas) stolen from their phones and e-mail accounts. They're also the center of an entire stealth industry. For the man recently arrested in the b

What happens when a cop falls in love with the radicals he's spying on? Mark Kennedy found out the hard way.

Every online scam begins more or less the same—a random e-mail, a sketchy attachment. But every so often, a new type of hacker comes along. Someone who rewrites the rules, not just the code. He secretly burrows his way into your hard drive, then into your

Kim Proctor was no different than your ordinary teenage girl. Easily hurt by insults and just as easily swayed by compliments, she dwelled in an angsty purgatory familiar to most adolescents. But when Kim went from average kid to missing girl, her storyli

Gary McKinnon hacked thousands of government computers

It's a weekly occurence these days: the kooky bank robbery as seen on the local news. But every so often along comes a scheme of such ingenuity, such precision, that you can't help but stop and appreciate the craftsmanship. This is the tale of the fall

Three years ago a group of computer geeks slipped into the servers at Framingham-based TJX — the parent company of T. J. Maxx — and orchestrated the world’s biggest identity heist. Now, as the hackers head to prison and the secrets of their scam are revea

He was a 14-year-old blind kid, angry and alone. Then he discovered that he possessed a strange and fearsome superpower - one that put him in the cross hairs of the FBI

The latest way to move cocaine out of Colombia? Underwater.

A faceless, unstable virtual army masses to take on a religion.

Eric Drew miraculously recovered from both cancer and identity theft.

A password. 7 simple letters. A hacker's lucky guess. And suddenly the frontman for Linkin Park was living a nightmare. Finding the stalker would become a matter of national security.

Two kids, 13 and 15, killed an innocent highway motorist. Was a violent computer game responsible -- or their sad lives?