Edward Pearson, a computer hacker from Lendale,York has been jailed for an ID fraud. He acquired credit and debit card specifics to carry out a fraud worth €8000,000.
Southwark Crown Court was informed about how Edward pearson,23, used trojans such as Zeus,Spyeye,Python to download thousands of credit card details along with the postcodes,names,dates of birth of more than eight million people in UK.
One of his python coded programme created could scan about 200,000 accounts registered to online paypal - identifying names, passwords and their current balances.The specifics had been all stolen over an 18-month period between January 1, 2010, and August 30, 2011.
Police Experts stated that, pearson got caught only after only making a €2,400($3,800 USD)but could had made €800,000($1.3M USD) with all the information he collected.
Pearson, an 'incredibly talented' boarding student who carried out the crime for an 'intellectual challenging',has been jailed for two years and two months.
Southwork Crown Court informed that pearson was also able to shutdown a portion of the mobile telephone giant NOKIA's internal network for two weeks right after hacking in and copying the specifics of more than 8,000 members of staff.
Authorities were alerted to the problem when his 21-year-old girlfriend, Cassandra Mennim, a sociology student at the University of York, used stolen credit cards to book rooms at the upmarket Cedar Court Grand and Lady Anne Middleton Hotels.
Pearson was arrested immediately after investigators linked a internet alias, ‘G-Zero’, which had appeared on hacking forums, to his individual e mail address.
David Hughes, prosecuting, mentioned the hacker had carried out a series of ‘sophisticated, planned frauds.’ Pearson admitted making an article for use in fraud and two counts of possession of an article for use in fraud.
