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Hacker Sentenced To Longest US Sentence Yet

Posted by samzenpus on from the learn-to-make-friends dept.

Iphtashu Fitz writes "The Associated Press is reporting that a Michigan man has been sentenced to 9 years in prison for his involvement in hacking into the corporate systems of Lowe's Home Improvement and attempting to steal customer credit card information. The sentence far exceeds the 5 1/2 years that hacker Kevin Mitnick spent behind bars. Two others are awaiting sentencing, including one of the first people to ever be convicted of wardriving. Prosecutors said the three men tapped into the wireless network of a Lowe's store in Southfield, Mich., used that connection to enter the chain's central computer system in North Wilkesboro, N.C., and installed a program to capture credit card information. No data was actually collected however."

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  1. Great News by DotNM · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is great news and will hopefully discourage other hackers.

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    1. Re:Great News by LinuxHeadMN · · Score: 0, Troll

      It's about time. I highly doubt though this will really act as a detriment to the most hardned script kiddies.

      I would like to see more stringent laws regarding this, but however the wheels of justice turn slow.

    2. Re:Great News by Hawke666 · · Score: 0, Troll

      Right, but they didn't get any CC numbers.

      So I guess "not stealing credit card numbers" is a crime too then, eh?

      Guess I'm going to jail.

    3. Re:Great News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      you f'in loser. there is nothing worse than the loss of life. shut the f up.

      *to everyone else: excuse my lack of creativity, but this asshole needs a punch in the mouth*

  2. The article isn't clear... by Starbreeze · · Score: 0, Troll

    So Lowe's is guilty of not securing their network. That's like leaving your front door wide open and wondering why a burglar wandered in. Yes, the hacker deserves punished for intent to steal, but that long of a sentence?

  3. The system is F**ked! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ok for my 2 cents i would like to point out:

    A.) These guys were a bunch of d00ch bags and need a nice punishment for such n00bish ways of hacking.

    B.) These as already stated are not hackers! i can not stress how mad i get to see the term hacker used to exploit people that want to learn about everything and anything! Look the term hacker up then look the word cracker up. Also these type of idiots are aka n00bs, skipt kiddies, etc.

    C.) Lets see national debt and how to help it out? hmm lets throw the book at anyone that makes a felonie instead of finding less wastefull ways around it. I cant wait to see the thread for the first hacker procecuted and sentenced to capital punishment for something so obsered.

    D.) I am not sympathyzing with these guys but unless they have evidence that it was indeed a program that would capture credit information and they wernt doing it to get passwords or anything else they how can they sentence them with out the system being currupt from the inside? I want evidence and until i see pure evidence that they were trying to steal sensitive information to do things such as fraud, theft etc then i will sympathyz with them.

    These guys actully live pretty close to me. Weird i never heard of this until now. I should write jacksonville prison and get a new penpal. Whos with me?

  4. Re:So they didn't steal credit card information? by Lehk228 · · Score: 0, Troll

    well rape does not make any of our corporate overlords look foolish and irresponsible, of course it has less jail time.

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