Hackers cut deal to work for gov’t

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http://phnompenhpost.com/national/hackers-cut-deal-work-gov%E2%80%99t

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
The Phnom Penh Post
1 October 2014

Two members of “hacktivist” group Anonymous Cambodia convicted of computer 
hacking yesterday will be spared further jail time. Instead, they have 
been ordered to put their “excellent” IT skills to use combating 
cybercrime in the Ministry of Interior.

Bun King Mongkolpanha, 21, alias “Black Cyber”, and Chou Songheng, 20, 
alias “Zoro”, were found guilty of IT offences under two articles of the 
criminal code at Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday morning and 
sentenced to two years in prison.

But their sentences were reduced to five months and 20 days – the amount 
of time they have already spent in prison since being arrested in April – 
and they are to be released today.

The two former SETEC Institute students are to soon begin paid work 
fighting cybercrime with the same Interior Ministry department that worked 
with the FBI to arrest them after an eight-month investigation.

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