[ISN] Computer expert who stole eight million people¢s personal details for an 'intellectual challenge' jailed for two and half years

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 02:04:29 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124114/Computer-hacker-Edward-Pearson-Lendale-York-stole-million-people-s-personal-details-jailed-half-years.html

By Phil Vinter
Mail Online
3 April 2012

A computer hacker illegally acquired enough credit and debit card 
details to carry out a potential £800,000 worth of fraud.

Edward Pearson, 23, of Lendale, York, used a trojan virus to download 
thousands of credit card details along with the postcodes, passwords, 
names and dates of birth of more than eight million people in the UK.

One of his programs scanned through 200,000 accounts registered to 
online payment service PayPal - identifying names, passwords and current 
balances.

Pearson, an 'incredibly talented' boarding school student who carried 
out the crime for an ‘intellectual challenge’, has been jailed for two 
years and two months.

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