Thursday, March 08, 2007

U.S. Hacker Sentenced to One Year's Imprisonment

Fiona Raisbeck writes on SC Magazine Online:

A US citizen who pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit computer fraud and identity theft has been sentenced to one year's imprisonment by a Florida court.

Justin A Perras was one of five co-defendants who admitted hacking into computers at information management provider LexisNexis.

He was sentenced to one year in prison, followed by three years supervised release and 100 hours of community service.

The fraudsters infected and hijacked the organisation’s computers and employed social engineering techniques to access information, including login usernames and passwords, stored in the company’s Accurint database, prosecutors said.

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