Man Gets 10 Years For VoIP Hacking

angry tapir writes "A US court has sentenced a Venezuelan man to 10 years in prison for stealing and then reselling more than 10 million minutes of Internet phone service. Edwin Pena, 27, was convicted in February of masterminding a scheme to hack into more than 15 telecommunications companies and then reroute calls to their networks at no charge. He must also pay more than US$1 million in restitution, and will be deported once his sentence is served."

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[c6gunner]

His "victims" claim he cost them $1.4 million. How did they lose out? Because he sold bandwidth that they weren't even using at the time?

You're not using your living-room sofa for sleeping on, so I'm going to rent it out to a Mexican migrant for a few hundred a month. Hope you enjoy the company - I know I'll enjoy the cash.

Deporting?

[dcroxton]

How inhumane, deporting the poor man! This is just like those fascists in Arizona who want to send undocumented immigrants back to Mexico.