I found this article by accident. This is so cool! I can't beieve this stuff happens even today. Albeit, on a smaller scale than SR. The hackers/crackers here carry out distributed denial of service attacks causing a whopping 2 millions dollars worth of damage to the companies involved. And they were payed to do it!

http://newssocket.com/foonet/

Also check this out. The incidents in this article inspired the events in Ghost in the Shell:Stand Alone Complex. Another case of modern day extortion except this was done years ago. Something like 1984 was when the string of events started.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glico_Morinaga_case


Have any of you found similar cases of unsolved/unprosecuted shadowrun-esque activities in our modern world? This stuff is way cooler than heist movies could ever dream of being