Philippine police arrests 8 S. Korean hackers

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http://www.zdnet.com/philippine-police-arrests-8-s-korean-hackers-7000002009/

By Ryan Huang
ZDNet
August 2, 2012

Eight South Koreans have been arrested in the Philippines for allegedly 
hacking into Globe Telecom, one of the country's largest telcos, in 
order to lower the cost of international mobile phone calls for other 
countrymen there.

Philippine police cybercrime division chief Gilbert Sosa said the 
hackers were rounded up Monday in four raids around metropolitan Manila, 
along with seven Filipino women working for them, according to the 
Associated Press on Tuesday.

The group allegedly hacked lines for international calls of Globe 
Telecom and rerouted them to mostly South Koreans users living in the 
Philippines, said Sosa in the article. This allowed them to be charged 
less than half the normal call rates of 11 to 15 cents per minute.

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