thomas%mvac23.uucp@udel.edu (Thomas Lapp) (06/09/90)
Since we don't know the extent of the crackers ring that the secret
service has been going after, I don't know if there is any connection
between this case and those, but thought I would pass it along.
Below are some excerpts from a news article in the Wilmington
(Delaware) {News-Journal} of 9 June 90 under the title, "'Dropout'
Computer Hacker Sentenced to Finish School."
``A 16-year-old eighth-grade dropout, who was part of a
computer-hacking network that used pirated credit information to make
purchases will return to school by court order.
The Glascow-area youth was sentenced Thursday in Family Court on theft
and computer-misuse charges for his part in a ring that included teens
in Michigan and California, New Castle County police said.
In addition to requiring the boy to complete school, the court placed
him on probation until he turns 18 and ordered him to pay $3,049 in
restitution and $1,018 to the state victims' compensation fund. The
court suspended a $6,790 fine.''
[The boy was arrested in May for receiving goods which were purchased
on credit card numbers which were stolen. The News-Journal does not
publish names of youths who do not commit violent crimes, so his name
does not appear in the article. Apparently the boy used several
rouses to get people to give him their credit card numbers over the
phone. He then traded some of those numbers with a Michigan youth in
exchange for access codes and numbers to a national credit bureau, and
used those systems to get more numbers in his local area. He then
charged purchases to those numbers and had them deliver to an empty
apartment which he arranged to be at. Some of the other activities he
was involved with include:]
``* Using the [illegally obtained credit card numbers] to order computer
equipment and have it delivered to vacant homes. He also rented a
limousine and charged the fee to the card.
* Trading some of the pirated information for computer software from
hackers in Europe.
* Tapping into an '800' number and using it to make numerous long-distance
calls.
* Giving credit-card numbers to a Los Angeles teen, who [used the information
to also defraud the credit card companies].
Charges against the Delaware boy were forgery, theft, unlawful access
to computer systems, misuse of computer equipment and unlawful use of
credit cards.''
- tom
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