[pchelpers] News:Major Canadian hacker ring cracked

The Mounties always get their man

Robert Jaques, vnunet.com 21 Feb 2008

Canadian police have arrested 17 people suspected of running the
country's largest and most damaging hacker network.

The Sûreté du Québec and Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested people
in 12 locations in a co-ordinated series of dawn raids.

The gang is believed to have run a botnet of up to one million zombie
PCs, spanning 100 countries around the globe.

Seven people were charged with illegally obtaining computer services,
illegally possessing computer passwords and hacking.

More here:
http://www.pcw.co.uk/vnunet/news/2210241/canadian-mounties-always-botnet
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