Wow, AT&T was lucky this guy was in the US, if he were working from Venezuela it would be far more difficult to find and sentence him.
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:20 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]><mailto:[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> > > > VoIP hacker sentenced to 10 years. > > A Venezuelan citizen was sentenced to 10 years in U.S. federal prison > September 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/
