Child pornography charges were dropped against a Massachusetts state employee after computer forensics experts determined the images in question were placed on his laptop by a third party. After a month long analysis, experts concluded his computer was compromissed by hackers putting pornographic images  on his drive that were not visible to the naked eye.

The defendant in this case was fired and subsequently charged with possession of child pornography. The charges have since been dismissed.

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A gentlemen in London was mistakenly arrested after his credit card number was used for purchasing child pornography. He was later cleared after it was determined that his card numbers had been stolen online. Before the dust eventually settled, he lost his high paying job and his children stopped speaking to him.

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Here is an interesting story from Jacksonville, Florida. A disgruntled employee at an architectural firm purposefully deleted seven years worth of files, estimated to be worth $2.5 million, when she mistakenly thought she was about to be fired. She was arrested and charged with causing greater than $1000 damage to computer files, which is a felony in Florida. The business owner did eventually recover the files but only at a great expense.

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