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Reuters: Welsh hacker suspects “knew Bill Gates’ credit details”

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 26, 2000

[ Thanks to Mr T
for this link. ]

“Raphael Gray, 18, was arrested on Saturday for Internet fraud
after a joint operation between the U.S. Federal Bureau of
investigation (FBI) and Welsh police.”

“Gray and his accomplice allegedly e-mailed credit card
details, including those of Gates, to NBCi, a subsidiary of the NBC
broadcasting group, the Telegraph said.”

“The 18-year-olds are said to have used the screen name
“Curador” — Welsh for custodian and allegedly hacked into nine
e-commerce Web sites around the world, stealing credit card
information related to more than 26,000 accounts from web sites in
the United States, Canada, Thailand, Japan and Britain.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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