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Schoolboy Detained for Hacking Russian State Banks Website
From: InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 04:44:30 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/23/bankhacker.shtml 23.08.2005 MosNews Police have detained a schoolboy in the Russian internal republic of Mordovia for hacking one of the websites of the Sberbank savings bank. The 17-year-old is suspected of infecting the website with a virus which affected dozens of Internet users in various Russian regions. One Internet user reported the virus to the Moscow police departments interior directorate, who in turn informed their colleagues in Mordovia. The boy, quoted by the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, said he only wanted to have fun. The head of the polices high-tech crimes department said the suspected hacker may get a suspended sentence. In 2004, 98 similar crimes were registered; in the first half of 2005 over 150 were reported. _________________________________________ Attend ToorCon Sept 16-18th, 2005 Convention Center San Diego, California www.toorcon.org
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