Well, since he pocketed that much, let's hope he had enough money left to pay for his attorney's fees before the feds confiscated his bank account.
I saw this in /. this morning, and the case goes back to 2005. Imagine the damage he did to AT&T, who should have him into telling who the hacker was, so they could HIRE the hacker instead... Perhaps because AT&T has invested so ch on securing and protecting port 5060 in lieu of this that they don't want to open another port for trunking... On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Michael Scheidell < [email protected]> wrote: > and then there is also this: > > > -------- Original Message -------- Subject: VoIP Hacker Sentenced to 10 > Years Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:15:17 -0400 From: First Alerts > <[email protected]> <[email protected]> To: > <[email protected]><[email protected]> > > *VoIP hacker sentenced to 10 years. * > A Venezuelan citizen was sentenced to 10 years in U.S. federal > prisonSeptember 24 for hacking into the networks of telecommunications > companies > and then routing millions of minutes of voice over IP calls over their > systems. > > The 27-year-old admitted in February that he pocketed more than $1m in the > scam, in which he posed as a legitimate reseller of long-distance calling > services. > > By scanning networks of AT&T and other companies, he was able to identify > unprotected ports through which he could transmit more than 10 million > minutes of unauthorized calls. > > The suspect, who spent much of his time in Miami, Florida, was described as > the mastermind behind the operation. > > For technical help in identifying vulnerable networks, he turned to a > Spokane, Washington hacker. He was previously sentenced to 2 years in > prison for his role, which included performing more than 6 million scans on > AT&T’s network alone over a 5-month span in 2005. > > Article posted at: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/voip_hacker_sentenced/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > This email has been scanned and certified safe by SpammerTrap®. > For Information please see http://www.secnap.com/products/spammertrap/ > ------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list > [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/ > -- ====================== Tony Graziano, Manager Telephone: 434.984.8430 sip: [email protected] Fax: 434.984.8431 Email: [email protected] LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk: Telephone: 434.984.8426 sip: [email protected] Fax: 434.984.8427 Helpdesk Contract Customers: http://www.myitdepartment.net/gethelp/ Why do mathematicians always confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
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