[ISN] Policemen jailed for hacking into network

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:04:14 -0500 (CDT)
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/crime/policemen-jailed-for-hacking-into-network-1.639635

By Bassam Za' za'
Senior Reporter
Gulf News
June 11, 2010

Dubai: Two policemen have been jailed after a court convicted them 
yesterday of tapping into the Dubai Police network system and cancelling 
Dh3,650 worth of traffic violations.

The Dubai Court of First Instance's Presiding Judge Hamad Abdul Latif 
Abdul Jawad jailed each of the Emirati policemen, a 23-year-old first 
corporal and a 22-year-old first policeman, for three months.

When the defendants appeared in court earlier, they denied the charges.

Prosecutors had charged 23-year-old S.A. and 22-year-old S.M. with 
abusing their duty at Dubai Police's operation room and accessing the 
network [without their superiors' approval] to cancel their own traffic 
violations and those of others.

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