[pchelpers] News:Hacker Sticks Company With $43,000 Phone Bill

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

It's a long way from Manitoba to Bulgaria — and phone calls from one to
the other can get really expensive.

That's what one hapless Canadian small-business owner discovered after a
hacker broke into his company's voice-mail system and placed hundreds of
calls to the Balkan nation, landing him with a $43,000 phone bill.

"If I have to pay that whole bill out of my own pocket, I'm looking at
having to lay off one of my employees," Alan Davison, owner of HUB
Computer Solutions in Winnipeg, told the Winnipeg Free Press. "It's
quite obvious something was right out of whack. There were hundreds of
phone calls."

More here:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,471105,00.html
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