Default Passwords Blamed In $55M PBX Hacks

An anonymous reader writes "The Washington Post is reporting that the US Justice Department has indicted three residents of the Philippines for breaking into more than 2,500 corporate PBX systems in the United States and abroad. The government says the hackers sold access to those systems to operators of call centers in Italy, which allegedly made 12 million minutes of unauthorized phone calls through the system, valued at more than $55 million. The DOJ's action coincides with an announcement from Italian authorities today of the arrest of five men there who are suspected of funneling the profits from those call centers to terrorist groups in Southeast Asia."

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Feh.

[Renraku]

The companies that got 'hacked' should get a serious talking to by the anti-terrorism folks. After all, they played a part in terrorism (or at least, what is called terrorism, who knows what it really funded?), and should be punished!

Not changing default passwords is literally begging for trouble.