A 27-year-old Venezuelan convicted of pillaging and subsequently reselling more than 10 million VoIP minutes has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Edwin Pena’s VoIP bootlegging operation depended on good old brute force attacks for its success, of which he and his accomplices had plenty, managing to force their way through more than 15 networks belonging to various telecom and VoIP companies.
Pena used compromised networks to reroute VoIP calls he sold to businesses at heavily discounted prices. His unsuspecting clients took his operation for a legitimate business. Before he became the first man to be indicted by U.S. authorities for VoIP hacking, he had robbed his victims of more than $1.4 million.
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Man Gets 10 Years for Stealing 10 Million VoIP Minutes
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