[VOIPSEC] Got Pena.

[Shawn Merdinger]

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9127718


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Subject: [ISN] Feds find, arrest fugitive hacker on the run in Mexico
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9127718

By Sharon Gaudin
February 10, 2009
Computerworld

A Miami man, on the run for more than two years after being arrested and
charged with stealing and reselling VoIP services, has been caught in
Mexico.

Edwin Pena was arrested in June of 2006 on computer and wire fraud
charges. The government charges that from November 2004 to May 2006 Pena
and a cohort hacked into the computer networks of VoIP service providers
and routed calls of Pena's customers' through them.

According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in New
Jersey, Pena and co-conspirator Robert Moore of Spokane, Wash., sold
more than 10 million minutes of VoIP service stolen from 15
telecommunications providers.

Pena, who is charged with one count of computer fraud and one count of
wire fraud, faces a maximum of 25 years in prison.

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