Saturday, November 27, 2010

Student Cue Hacker Is Fined

A P.C. hacker who pennyless in to the email accounts of hundreds of students has been fined 21,000.

Daniel Woo, 23, a Bulgarian, certified repetitively posing as a tyro at the School of Oriental and African Studies in Bloomsbury, middle London.

Police mentioned Woo, of Knightsbridge, took financial data, and rascal after that occurred in a few accounts.

Southwark Crown Court gave Woo a 36-week dangling prison judgment for crimes beneath the Misuse of Computers Act.

He was held installing password-capturing program by P.C. staff examining network problems.

Detectives then detected Woo had been posing as a tyro to earn access to the university's P.C. room.

He burst students' passwords and commissioned a programme to collect more passwords.

Woo has been criminialized from entering any university, college or place of aloft preparation for a year without military consent.

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