Man Gets 10 Years for Stealing 10 Million VoIP Minutes
Man Gets 10 Years for Stealing 10 Million VoIP Minutes
Posted 09/25/2010 at 5:16am
| by Pulkit Chandna
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A 27-year-old Venezuelan convicted of pillaging and subsequently reselling more than 10 million VoIP minutes has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Edwin Pena's VoIP bootlegging operation depended on good old brute force attacks for its success, of which he and his accomplices had plenty, managing to force their way through more than 15 networks belonging to various telecom and VoIP companies.
Pena used compromised networks to reroute VoIP calls he sold to businesses at heavily discounted prices. His unsuspecting clients took his operation for a legitimate business. Before he became the first man to be indicted by U.S. authorities for VoIP hacking, he had robbed his victims of more than $1.4 million.
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I Jedi
September 25, 2010 at 9:07am
That, sir,
Is f*cking awesome... He should have quit it as soon as he made enough money to pay off debts, though, or whatever he was trying to do originally. 'Course, he could have just wanted money just because, but should have quit after awhile, as all these companies would be asking, "wtf?" after awhile.
Walnut
September 26, 2010 at 4:05pm
He just shouldn't have done it in the first place. How he could have expected to get away with this is pretty outrageous.
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