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Stories about: phone hacking

Notorious Phreaker Gets Sentenced to Eleven Years in Prison Matthew Weigman, a 19-year-old legally blind phreaker from Massachusetts, has been sentenced to over 11 years behind bars for making fake 911 calls, illegally listening to the phone conversations of others and harassing a Verizon investigator. Sean Benton, one of Weigman's partners in crime, also received an 18-... 30 June 2009 08:08 GMT Phreakers Hit Australian Companies The media in Western Australia is reporting that hackers are compromising the Internet phone systems of various local companies and abuse the forwarding function to make phone calls to other countries. The WA police announced that it received multiple complaints from various businesses regarding such intrusions. The... 22 January 2009 03:47 GMT