Hackers: Crime and punishment

Gather 10 cases of hackers around the world to see how severe the penalties are compared to the crimes committed by them .

The hacker Brother Gary McKinnon broke into the US Department of Defense system will be extradited to the US is a hot topic in the British press. Rumor has it that if convicted in the US, McKinnon will face a prison sentence of 70 years.

Before McKinnon was convicted, IT Pro synthesized 10 cyber crime cases, including their crimes and most importantly, the severity of the sentences.

Jonathan James

Jonathan James, another name C0mrade, was only 16 years old when he was arrested and officially convicted of snooping inside the server of the US Defense Threats Agency (DTRA).

James deliberately installed a backdoor into the server to allow himself access to sensitive emails as well as usernames and passwords of these employees. In addition, James was accused of attacking the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) and stealing software worth $ 1.7 million.

Because James's age at the time of the crime was so small, he only had to receive a mild punishment, especially when compared to McKinnon's case, with six months in prison and a ban on computer use.

Jon Paul Oson

Oson, a 38-year-old network engineer from San Diego (USA), illegally broke into the network of the former agency for revenge.

Network of Hospital Community Councils (CCC) at that time provided services to 17 hospitals, regional clinics in San Diego and California counties - including medical records and health test results strong. Once penetrating the network, Oson erased important patient data and billing information, placing the lives of thousands of people at risk.

Oson was officially charged in 2008, received a five-year sentence and paid $ 144,358.83 for CCC and $ 264,979 for the National Center for Health Statistics.

Maksym Yastremskiy (another name is Maksik)

Source: Tech Herald Maksik, according to US authorities, is part of a cybercrime group who broke into Wi-Fi networks of several major retail chains in the US, harming more than 45 million credit cards, debit card. Hackers successfully compromised the networks of OfficeMax, Barnes & Noble, Boston Market, Sports Authority, Forever 21, DSW, BJ's Wholesale Club, TJ Maxx, and Marshall's.

Obviously, the United States was anxious to catch Maksik. However, ironically, the Turkish authorities caught him first while he was resting there.

After being arrested by Turkish authorities in July 2007, Maksik was formally convicted of attacking the system of 12 Turkish banks and sentenced to 30 years in jail with a fine of $ 23,200. America will have to wait at least 30 years before they can think about the process of extraditing Maksik.

Kevin Mitnick

Mitnick started his hacker career at the age of 12 using social engineering - deceiving individuals to reveal private information.

In the early 1990s, Mitnick was one of the most hunted cyber criminals in American history for attacking systems of big companies like Nokia, Sun Microsystems and Motorola.

Authorities finally caught Mitnick in 1995. He was accused of attacking Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) computer system using a phone number given to him by his friend.

Mitnick received 46 months in prison and added 22 months of supervision after his release.

Matthew Weigman

Earlier this year, blind hacker Matthew Weigman of the United States was sentenced to 11 years in prison after being accused of breaking into the phone network.

Weigman uses his phone hacking skills to break into Sprint's mobile carrier system, stealing private calls and even hoaxing by setting hostage kidnapping situations in 2005.

Weigman, who is considered one of the world's best phone hackers in his teens, was sentenced to 135 months in prison. According to the US Attorney General's Office, it is difficult to hope that the sentence will be mitigated.

Kevin Lee Poulsen

Known for his 'Dark Dante' nickname in the days of his network intrusion in the 1980s, Poulsen involved a number of hacks that eventually made him known as America's most famous cybercrime. Even NBC's Unsolved Mysteries has yet to feature a story about him before he was arrested.

Poulson was tried in June 1994, sentenced to 7 charges, including money laundering, email fraud, computers, obstruction of justice. The penalty is 51 months imprisonment and a $ 56,000 fine.

Vladimir Levin

Levin of Russian origin erected one of the most successful network hacks in history with a $ 10.7 million withdrawal from Citibank in 1994.

Finally, the authorities caught Levin at Stansted Airport (UK) when he tried to board a plane to Moscow (Russia). After being arrested, Levin was extradited to the US and sentenced to 3 years in prison, and repaid $ 240,015.

Max Ray Butler

Max Ray Butler was arrested in 2000 after refusing to cooperate with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Earlier, Butler was an FBI informant, helping them find hacks of hackers.

Butler was convicted of a total of 15 crimes in 2001 including infringing on computers, possessing stolen passwords, blocking communications . and receiving 18 months in prison.

Butler was arrested again in 2007 after police searched his home and found 1.8 million stolen credit card accounts stored in his computer.

Because of this case, he will have to stand trial in October and can get sentenced to 40 years in prison and $ 1.5 million in fines if convicted.

Jeanson James Ancheta

Jeanson Ancheta, a California hacker (USA) is the first cybercrime to be convicted of controlling the number of kidnapped computers - known as ghost computer networks or botnets. He used to access nearly 400,000 separate computers as well as PCs of two military facilities.

Arrested in 2005, Ancheta was formally convicted in January 1 on charges of conspiracy to violate the CANSPAM Act, plotting to violate the law of computer fraud, destroying military computers and accessing illegal computers. France with the purpose of fraud.

He was sentenced to 57 months in prison and fined $ 60,000 in cash as well as $ 15,000 to the federal government for the damage he caused to their computers.

Simon Vallor

Unemployed warehouse employee Simon Vallor was convicted and imprisoned by the Southwark court (England) for two years in 2003.

Vallor, North Wales has created 3 viruses - Gokar, Redesi-B and Admirer - that have attacked thousands of computers worldwide.

According to reports, if FBI and Scotland Yard did not catch this Welsh hacker, his viruses had harmed tens of thousands of computers, businesses, organizations and users.