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Hacker Spanish it sells passwords of Hotmail
The prisoner is expert in computer science material of the company of software Microsoft, proprietor of Hotmail, with which he has made diverse courses. Sources of the company have denied any responsibility and announced that they are studying to personar itself in the cause, that at the moment a court of Lleida investigates. The arrested one will happen to judicial disposition in the next hours.
Police sources have explained that the operation, denominated “Hackwebmailâ€, is “absolutely openâ€, since in the next days and weeks it is anticipated to stop to the “clients†of “hackerâ€, who could ascend by the hundred of all Spain and the foreigner. Between the users of the service that offered until same today the prisoner, not only they would also appear peculiar but members of agencies of detectives and another type of professionals, according to sources of the investigation.
The mentioned sources have explained that the dimension of the case “is extraordinaryâ€, since after the obtaining of the passwords on the part of the clients of “hacker†- the one that tolerates a crime of discovery and revelation of secrets, swindles or other types of fraudulent activities could be, since Hotmail solely is not used by individuals but that also is used by companies.
In this sense, one of the investigators has indicated that the operation can take “months†in concluding, since it is come to identify the users of the service, many of which they are of foreign nationality, for which commissions will be requested rogatorias to the countries in which the “clients†reside. Also, the mentioned source has explained that “does not discard either†that the prisoner “has not acted onlyâ€. The same sources indicate that in the next months the possibility will be offered of initiating legal actions and of asking for indemnifications to all the people to whom they have harmed his electronic mail.
A dominion in the Pacific
The searches began month of April the past after a lawyer and of an editor of Europe Press denounced whom the investigations related to the police that had carried out and which they have ended up giving with the suspect.
After the denunciation, a court of Barcelona opened diligences and, after knowing itself that “hacker†it resides in Lleida, it stayed out please in a court of this last locality. The difficulties for the inquiry of this type of crimes - “hacker†it acts from a dominion of an island of the Pacific have expanded the investigation.
Police sources have explained that this same morning stopped to the suspect in the company of computer science in which it works, in Lleida, at the request of the judge who investigates the case. Also, agents of the Group of Technological Crimes of Barcelona of the CNP made registries in two addresses of the prisoner, Huesca and Lleida, and have seized numerous computer science material.
The arrested one appeared in popular forums of Internet offering passwords of accounts of mail of Hotmail and Microsoft (msn), putting like contact a direction of a page Web ) and assuring that it is not about “any deceit†but “a serviceâ€. The direction of the page is a gratuitous dominion of Tokelau, an island of the South Pacific, that is redirigido to another servant of lodging with dominion of Italy and finally the Web it is lodged in Sweden.
All the users of Hotmail, service of gratuitous mail that it has more than more than seven million “active clients†- who anywhere in the world use of continued form the mail in Spain and 187 million, have a key name (login) and a password (password), that must key in to accede to the service.
In the page created by “hacker†the service announced and it made sure that it is guaranteed “that the owner†of the account that was never asked for “will give account†of which they have found out “passwordâ€. “We do not become people in charge of the fraudulent use†and “any conducted illegal battle with the information that we facilitated to him will be of its responsibilityâ€, assured the Web.
After the client had filled up a form, she received a mail of “hacker†confirming his registry and, after validating it, already she could begin to ask for passwords. The requests were made through an electronic mail in which the direction was specified or directions from which it was tried to obtain the password.
“Hacker†it sent to the few days to the mail direction of the applicant the screen capture of the “Tray of entrance†of the victim and it indicated an account number to him so that it made the entrance of 30 euros. Once made, “hacker†it sent to the client the password.
Due to the “high commissions by transferences from the foreignerâ€, the prisoner offered the possibility of paying through “pay-pale†or money order with an additional cost of 35 euros of commission, in addition to the 30 euros by the obtaining of the password.
After the shipment of “passwordâ€, the client had the possibility of entering counts them solicitd and to read his messages, to erase them or to send them to others. According to sources of the investigation, “at any moment the victim continues having control on her account of mail, which causes that it does not detect the vulneración of his privacyâ€.
†A friend sends a card to himâ€
One of the methods used by “hacker†to obtain the password of its victims consisted of the shipment, on the part of the prisoner, of an electronic mail to the person from whom it tried to obtain the password in which it communicates that somebody well-known has sent him an electronic card. “A friend sends a card to himâ€, indicated the email.
This mail pretends to be lodged under the dominion of Microsoft, reproducing logos of this company. Email, which it contained a hyperconnection that takes to a page Web “Spoonfing†of MSN, asked for the user and the password of his direction to accede to the sent card.
Automatically, the victim put the information to disposition of the author of this “phising†or social engineering having been able the intention to know the password asked for. Police sources explained that this one is one of the methods used by the prisoner, but does not discard that it used other techniques when the victim “did not itch†with this “hair-splittingâ€. According to the investigators, the suspect “has been improving his methodsâ€.
Sources of the investigation have explained that to the prisoner is imputed a crime to him of the article number 197 of the Penal Code that talks about to that, “to discover the secrets or to harm the privacy of the other, without his consent, it seizes of his papers, letters†or “messages of electronic mailâ€.
In the case of “hackerâ€, in addition it would have revealed to the third obtained data that they contain personal data and with lucrative aims, which entails pains of four to seven years of prison. According to judicial sources, the clients whom there are obtained passwords could be condemned to pains of up to five years of jail. The mentioned sources explained that from the reform of the Penal Code of 1995 the sentences for this type of crimes have become hardened.
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