[ISN] Hacker charges $43, 000 in calls to Buffalo Grove firm's phone

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 01:08:21 -0600 (CST)
http://www.pioneerlocal.com/buffalogrove/news/1926703,bg-cuba-phone-121009-s1.article

By KATHY ROUTLIFFE
Pioneerlocal.com
December 8, 2009

"Reach out and trick someone" could be the slogan of a hacker who 
charged $43,000 in telephone calls -- mostly to Cuba -- to a Buffalo 
Grove worker's company phone within a period of days.

Police reported that an employee at RMS Technologies, 1359 N. Barclay 
Blvd., became aware someone had hacked into the phone system to make 
free calls after his phone service carrier warned of the unusual 
activity between Oct. 9 and 12.

"As far as how the technology works to rack up that many calls, we don't 
know,” police Cmdr. Steven Husak said Monday. "(The employee's) phone 
carrier alerted him to the situation, and he thought he had resolved it 
until he received the bill."

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