Teenaged Hacker Decreed for 11 Months

A teen computer hacker who controlled several systems in botnet attacks, which are networks of several systems tainted with harmful software code, has to face an imprisonment of 11 months in an adolescent prison.

The 17 year old guy from Worcester, USA, referred to N.H. in court records or by his online name Dshocker, beseeched guilty of system fraud, four cases of wire cheating, and interstate threats during November 2008.

N.H. also obtained stolen credit card numbers and purchased goods and services from them both for himself as well as for others. He assisted several carders purchase goods from these stolen cards teaching an associate who worked for a big shipping firm to redirect the packages of goods either to himself or to other carders.

While announcing his punishment in the 2nd week of April 2009, he was also granted two years probation period. Federal prosecutors informed that from November 2005 to May 2008, the accused also hacked the commercial computer systems to steal details and spread bogus bomb threats.

As per the US Attorney Office, the teenager issued orders to a control server commanding a network of thousands of systems to assail the target system, collapsing it or turning it slow, refuting services of that computer to the users. That is called "distributed denial of service attack".

The accused also confessed to obtaining unauthentic access to several systems repeatedly, which includes Road Runner, Comcast and Charter Communications, and robbed customer data. He also gained unauthentic access to the proprietary software and firmware of a company to amend cable modems, enabling him and others free web access.

Besides, the concern of cyber fraud is rising in teens and immature hackers have been seized often in the last few months.

In recent times, a teenager from Pennsylvania (USA), called Van T. Dinh, 19, was held and accused with two cases of system fraud after he targeted into managerial account of some currency-exchange service and transmitted money into another one. Dinh created a Trojan horse, which he then promoted as a device of stock market analysis.

» SPAMfighter News - 4/28/2009