Trojan hack lands cycle star Floyd Landis with suspended sentence

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By John E Dunn
Techworld
25 October 2011

Disgraced former Tour de France cyclist Floyd Landis should be given an 
18-month suspended prison sentence for his part in an alleged plot to 
hack the French national anti-doping laboratory (LNDD) using Trojans, a 
prosecutor has said.

The planting of computer Trojans for the purposes of data theft is 
usually seen as the work of criminals and perhaps government espionage 
agencies, but the Landis case has underlined that even private 
individuals can be accused of using the technology for ill purposes.

The accusation by French prosecutors is that Landis and his coach Arnie 
Baker hired a computer expert, Alain Quiros of private investigation 
company Kargus Consultants, to hack into the anti-doping agency in order 
to retrieve sensitive documents connected to the body’s case against him 
after he was caught doping in 2006.

The lab concerned, Châtenay-Malabry, reported that it had been hacked a 
few months after Landis won the 2006 Tour de France, a victory he was 
then stripped of in embarrassing circumstances after the positive dope 
test. Documents stolen were later allegedly used by Landis’s coach in 
his drawn-out appeals against the doping charge.

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