[VOIPSEC] Got Pena.

[Dan York]

Shawn,

Cool!  Thanks for passing along the news...

Dan

On Feb 11, 2009, at 8:42 AM, Shawn Merdinger wrote:

> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9127718
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>
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> From: InfoSec News <alerts at infosecnews.org>
> Date: Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:07 AM
> Subject: [ISN] Feds find, arrest fugitive hacker on the run in Mexico
> To: isn at infosecnews.org
>
>
> 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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