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Stories about: phreaking

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 Voicemail Hack Costs Business Owner $43,000 A Canadian company was left with a $43,000 phone bill after an unknown hacker broke into its voicemail system and made hundreds of calls to Bulgaria. The owner of the company argued that the phone network should have alerted him about the unusual high number of long-distance calls. Alan Davison, the owner of Winnipeg... 22 December 2008 08:55 GMT