Hacker Receives Sentence For Fraud Related To Online Betting And Emails

A 21-year-old hacker was banged up yesterday for frauds netting him a Porsche, Peckover targeted online betting sites, and also hacked individual email accounts. He exploited both BT and Google, and the companies have said they've fixed their holes.

Peckover both downloaded and wrote his own scripts to remotely view and control other individuals' computers. Sussex Police said he had been able to access the email account and the password of everyone that had bought an item using BT Openzone. Using this info Peckover checked which of them had Gmail and ended up with with access to 500 email accounts.

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