Swindle of the Ukrainian hacker has costed for telephone company "Ukrtelecom " in 7,5 thousand dollars
The malefactor has organized the business on write-off of duties for telephone conversations in Zaporozje, Ukraine. As a rule, his clients were foreigners, whose bills made about thousand Ukrainian grivnas a month.
National "skilled craftsman" was the former programmer of "Ukrtelecom". He participated in developing the program of telephone conversations' automated account and the control over their payment. After dismissal he has agreed with the cashier of savings bank and for 50 % wrote off debts for telephone conversations, using the access code to system. Now the malefactor is detained. In this connection criminal case for (article 361 of Ukrainian Criminal Code) «illegal intervention in work of computers and computer networks» is initiated, So, the swindler is threatened with 5 years of imprisonment.
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