How AFP smashed Bottle hackers

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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/280723,how-afp-smashed-bottle-hackers.aspx

By Darren Pauli
iTnews.com.au
Nov 21, 2011

No honour among thieves.

You might think the strategies to catch criminals used by gumshoe 
detectives and cyber cops are worlds apart, but the investigation into 
the hack of Bottle Domains demonstrated that they share a common 
heritage.

Follow the money. Be adaptive. These were but some established police 
tactics used by Federal Police technical specialist Alex Tilley to nail 
the hacker and money man behind the 2007 hack which was made public two 
years later.

Two men were charged in 2009 for cracking Bottle’s network and 
attempting to sell a database containing some 70,000 domains and 13,000 
credit card numbers. The hacker served a reduced six month sentence, 
while the seller received a good behaviour bond.

But the fallout from the hack could have been huge. The hacker at the 
time worked for an IT services company employed by Bottle Domains. He 
had exploited his insider knowledge to break into the company and had 
planned to sell the stolen database.

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