According to the statement published on March 31, 2008 by SCmagazine, an Internet security vendor Fortinet warned that in the last week of March, a spam campaign obtained access to the user accounts of Facebook and send messages on the Wall feature of user profiles, continuing the security threats.

Indonesia's information ministry said on March 28, 2008 that hackers compromised a government Website in the country and kept it in that state for many hours as a sign of protest against the new anti-porn law that prohibits pornography on the Internet.

In November 2007, police charged two graduates and six students of Fayetteville-Manlius High School of applying a keylogger to gain control of a computer system of the school to be able to steal admin passwords and alter grades. Initially, administrators feared that there might have been tampering with various records such as the SAT test marks but after investigations, it was found that the group of hackers changed only their own performance results.

Britain's leading publishing organization Reed Elsevier's division the LexisNexis Group has agreed with the Federal Trade Commission regarding information leaks that endangered the private data of innumerable Americans at its Seisint branch in Boca Raton.

A possible security breach into the Website of PlayStation Store might have compromised private information belonging to a small number of users, according to an announcement by Sony Computer Entertainment on their Websites of PlayStation US and UK, as reported by CRN on March 27, 2008.

AdWords clients recently have been finding unwanted phishing e-mails in their mailboxes. The message appears official and also shows a link pointing to AdWords support setting alarm, according to security researchers at Search Engine Roundtable, provider of report on Search Engine Marketing (SEM) forums, as reported by Securitypronews on March 24, 2008.

Discount retailer TJX Cos. Inc. has acquiesced to enhance security of its network of computers in response to FTC's charges of lax security that allowed hackers to commit theft of credit card details of millions of customers, according to the US Federal Trade Commission as reported by REUTERS on March 27, 2008.

A former intern with San Jose City Council, Eric Hernandez, 18, has been obliged to community service for 50 hours after admitting his offence of illegally hacking the city's e-mail system. The Judge of the Superior Court granted the defense's plea by reducing the felony charge to misdemeanor.

A researcher working with MarkMonitor has found that three quarters (75%) of dubious phishing sites make surreptitious use of Google's search terms that are shared and traded across underground forums, as per reported by Hackinthebox on March 27, 2008.

An e-mail scam has made headways into The Ohio State University's (OSU) Webmail system taking over computers of both faculty and students and filling their mailboxes with junk e-mails, as reported by nbc4i on March 26, 2008.