Court divines rehab for hacker "saint"

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A teenage Welsh hacker at the center of a multimillion-dollar FBI fraud investigation has been sentenced to three years of community rehabilitation with psychiatric care for what the defense called an obsessive medical condition.

Raphael Gray, a 19-year-old from Clynderwen in West Wales, called himself the "saint of e-commerce" and said he was on a mission to highlight security dangers on the Internet. The only problem was that to do this, he cracked thousands of computer networks and gained access to more than 23,000 credit card numbers.

He posted thousands of the numbers on the Web, leading to roughly $2.8 million (4 million pounds) in fraudulent credit card charges and causing two companies to close.

His best-known stunt, however, was using Bill Gates' own credit card number to mail-order the Microsoft chairman a large shipment of Viagra.

Post #1,007 by Fearless Freep 7/6/01 1:44:42 PM Reply	Court divines rehab for hacker "saint" [link\|http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6473282.html?tag=mn_hd\|Court divines rehab for hacker "saint" ] A teenage Welsh hacker at the center of a multimillion-dollar FBI fraud investigation has been sentenced to three years of community rehabilitation with psychiatric care for what the defense called an obsessive medical condition. Raphael Gray, a 19-year-old from Clynderwen in West Wales, called himself the "saint of e-commerce" and said he was on a mission to highlight security dangers on the Internet. The only problem was that to do this, he cracked thousands of computer networks and gained access to more than 23,000 credit card numbers. He posted thousands of the numbers on the Web, leading to roughly $2.8 million (4 million pounds) in fraudulent credit card charges and causing two companies to close. His best-known stunt, however, was using Bill Gates' own credit card number to mail-order the Microsoft chairman a large shipment of Viagra. Jay O'Connor "Going places unmapped to do things unplanned to people unsuspecting"
Post #1,011 by a6l6e6x 7/6/01 2:23:38 PM Reply	Interesting, but why is it that a news reporters so often do not have an idea of relative value of British pounds and dollars. A pound is about $1.40. So it's either $2.8 million ( 2 million pounds) or 4 million pounds ($5.6 million) or most likely 2.8 million pounds ($4 million). Sheesh! The "saint" does have a sense of humor in sending Viagra to Bill Gates. Viagra, isn't that generic docmidixaphalen? :) Alex
Post #1,013 by Fearless Freep 7/6/01 2:35:19 PM Reply	Not sure where else to put it Jay O'Connor "Going places unmapped to do things unplanned to people unsuspecting"

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