Two security researchers use the vulnerabilities in Jeep Cherokee's entertainment system to completely hijack the controls of the vehicle over a wireless network. After this "proof-of-concept", a congress initiative for better car security law was raised, while Chrysler issued a recall of 1.4 million vehicles.

Ross Ulbricht, the founder and operator of dark net's biggest marketplace for narcotics called Silk Road, was arrested in October 2013 and charged with money laundering, computer hacking, conspiracy to traffic narcotics, and procuring murder. Recently, he was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on all the charges but the one of procuring murder.

Ulbricht started the marketplace back in 2010, with free market ideology as his driving ideal. In time, while enforcing its rules and principles, Ulbricht turned into a criminal. Both the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the FBI had their investigations as early as 2011.

At the time of the arrest, the FBI seized 144,000 bitcoins which belonged to Ulbricht, worth $28.5 million. The seizure had a large impact on bitcoin's exchange rate at that time. The website was shut down shortly after that.

Germany's Chaos Computer Club announced that their biometrics team successfully bypassed Apple's TouchID biometrics login mechanism, thus showing that the fingerprint method is unsuitable for access control.

Their report states: “Biometrics is fundamentally a technology designed for oppression and control, not for securing everyday device access. [...] Forcing you to give up your (hopefully long) passcode is much harder under most jurisdictions than just casually swiping your phone over your handcuffed hands.“