[ISN] Serial hacker admits breaching Federal Reserve computers

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:13:03 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/14/federal_research_hacker_guilty/

By Dan Goodin in San Francisco 
The Register
14th April 2011

A Malaysian national has admitted hacking a computer network operated by 
the US Federal Reserve Bank and possessing stolen payment card data.

Lin Mun Poo, 32, entered a guilty plea on Wednesday in US District Court 
in Brooklyn. In November, prosecutors brought a four-count indictment 
against him that charged him with fraud, aggravated identity theft, 
unlawful transmission of computer code, and unauthorized access 
involving government information.

According to prosecutors, Poo made a career of hacking financial 
institutions, defense contractors and corporations and selling the data 
he stole. One of his victims included FedComp, a data processor for more 
than 2,500 credit unions. The attack allowed Poo to access data from 
multiple credit unions across the country.

He was arrested in arrested in October a few hours after arriving at 
John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Federal agents 
recovered a “heavily encrypted laptop computer” that included account 
data for more than 400,000 credit card, debit card and bank account 
numbers, prosecutors said in court documents. Just prior to apprehending 
Poo, agents observed him selling stolen credit card numbers for $1,000 
at a diner in Brooklyn.

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