A Seattle man who admitted using file-sharing programs to pinch personal
information on 50 people as part of an ID theft scam has been jailed for
four years.
Gregory Kopiloff, 35, pleaded guilty to mail fraud, computer hacking and
aggravated identity theft offences at a hearing before the US District Court
in Seattle in November. As part of a plea bargaining agreement, prosecutors
dropped a second aggravated ID theft rap, an offence punishable on
conviction by a mandatory two years behind bars in addition to any other
sentence a convict might face.
The judge called Kopiloff "a highwayman in the virtual world," AP reports.
"People were traveling by and he was able to seize their assets, their
personal identity," he added. ® (from The Register)
Detail here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/18/p2p_highwayman_jailed/
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I'll be delighted to see *more* prosecutions - what do others think?
BD