[pchelpers] News:Feds find, arrest fugitive hacker on the run in Mexico

U.S. government seeking extradition for mastermind behind stolen VoIP
scheme.

By Sharon Gaudin

February 10, 2009 (Computerworld)  A Miami man, on the run for more than
two years after being arrested and charged with stealing and reselling
VoIP services, has been caught in Mexico.

Edwin Pena was arrested in June of 2006 on computer and wire fraud
charges. The government charges that from November 2004 to May 2006 Pena
and a cohort hacked into the computer networks of VoIP service providers
and routed calls of Pena's customers' through them. 

According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in New
Jersey, Pena and co-conspirator Robert Moore of Spokane, Wash., sold
more than 10 million minutes of VoIP service stolen from 15
telecommunications providers. 

More here:
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