Waving a gun around at a bank is so 10 years ago. With a little tech on their side, a squad of bank robbers were able to snag a cool £30 million in cash with nothing but some hacks and few old key cards that had ATMs across the globe virtually printing money. Read More >>
Featured comment by ScyBy:
"Yeah, but British ATMs probably read the strip as well as the chip, at least when reading cards for UK accounts. The banks wouldn't go to this trouble..." More »
Dom Del Torto is an animator currently living in the UK. Dom Del Torto's laptop is a MacBook Pro currently living 3,000 miles away in Iran. This was not a planned separation. Read More >>
The dangers of drinking and visiting safari parks have been illustrated by young Adam Steff, who stole a giant tortoise from Woburn Safari Park. You know, for a laugh. Read More >>
The days of casually crossing a creek are over if you live in the Gölçük district of Kocaeli province in western Turkey. Which maybe you don't. But the point is that someone stole a 22-tonne, 82-foot-long bridge from there. It's just gone. Read More >>
Featured comment by Kat Hannaford:
"Yeah, it's a different bridge, as we mention in the last paragraph (we used the same picture though) http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/10/how-does-an-enti..." More »
A Tory MP and legal expert has accused HMV of literally stealing money from customers over the past few weeks, claiming that management's decision to continue selling gift vouchers while the chain teetered on the brink was tantamount to "obtaining property by deception." Read More >>
Featured comment by mysticusa:
"http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/tesco-and-asda-will-refund-hmv-gift-cards/
now this is good pr and how it should have been in the first place!" More »
Two British men have been given suspended six month jail terms for admitting their piracy crimes, which involved hacking into Sony's servers and stealing unreleased tracks from Michael Jackson and other Sony artists. Read More >>
Featured comment by Shallow Depression:
"Wow 6 months in prison for downloading a few Michael Jackson songs. The doctor who killed him got 4 years." More »
Vimeo user alversae has posted a video which shows a UPS delivery guy wander up to the front of his house and steal his daughter's Christmas present — an iPad mini — right off the porch where it had just been left by FedEx. Read More >>
Security footage broadcast by US network ABC News shows exactly what you might expect to happen to unattended laptops and iPads left lying about in airports -- they get bagsied by employees and taken home. Perk of the job, right? Read More >>
Featured comment by 10minuter:
"One of the reports said ABC went 30 miles away to Clermont Fl.
I wonder if Andy's wife who he tried to pin the blame on is
Milba A Ramirez who liv..." More »
Over the pond in the 'States, a RuneScape robbery has occurred, leaving a 19-year-old kid facing up to 15 years in prison for second-degree robbery and grand larceny over an alleged theft over RuneScape currency. Err. Read More >>
24 people from 13 countries around the world have been arrested, following an investigation into the buying and selling of stolen credit card details. The UK contributed six criminals to the haul. Read More >>
Featured comment by cooldude255220:
"http://www.hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=2623715
The fake site wasn't their first plan by the looks of things." More »
Ah, power. You give a person too much and they will abuse it. Such is the case with Thomas Langenbach, a 47-year-old VP at Palo Alto-based software company SAP Labs, who has been arrested for the nerdiest crime in recent memory. His abuse of power: computer-based. Read More >>
This is Michael Baker. Michael is 20 years old, lives in Kentucky, and likes The Bucket List on Facebook. I know these things because Michael has not activated his Facebook privacy settings, which is something that's recommended in most cases, but absolutely essential if you're going to post pictures of yourself stealing gas from a cop car on your wall. Read More >>
Featured comment by Magic Robot:
"Fancy syphoning petrol into a container obviously meant for diesel... This guy is out of control and totally living on the edge" More »
PhonepayPlus, the UK body tasked with regulating the often shady world of premium text messaging, has warned of the dangers of putting your mobile number into web sites that promise you amazing free prizes and money. Some people need telling these things? Read More >>
Karl Jo Seilern is the CEO of Pinspire (right), a 99% ripoff of mysteriously super-popular Pinterest (left). They look the same, sound the same, are the same; only one of them is a German clone! So we talked to Karl. Read More >>
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