news A 21-year-old man from the rural Queensland town of Kingaroy has been charged with hacking and fraud offences following the alleged hacking of a US based online gaming developer’s computer network, the Queensland Police today.
Yesterday, officers from the State Crime Command’s Fraud and Cyber Crime Group arrested the Kingaroy man. This follows a search warrant executed in November 2013, where police seized laptops and a hard drive for forensic examination. Police yesterday also executed a search warrant at an address in Poona and allegedly seized a number of items located within an encrypted container on a computer device on the property.
It is alleged the man was responsible for unlawfully accessing the US company’s computer network and accessing databases and files. It is further alleged the man was responsible for hacking the company’s Twitter account and posting information and screenshots (of information obtained from the network). The man is further alleged to have established a website offering a paid service to search the company’s player database.
“We would like to acknowledge the assistance of the FBI and the US-based gaming company for their assistance in bringing this investigation to a successful close,” Detective Superintendent Brian Hay of the Fraud and Cyber Crime Group said.
The man has been charged with three counts of computer hacking and misuse, two counts of fraud (dishonestly apply property to own use), two counts of fraud (dishonestly obtain property from another) and one count each of fraud (dishonestly cause detriment and possessing equipment for purpose of committing/facilitating the commission of an offence. He is due to reappear in the Maryborough Magistrates Court on April 8.
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Obviously not that much of an elite hacker if he was running Windows 8 … normally you’d expect to see something like Linux etc.
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I wonder which game developer it was?
Do you remember any game developer that had a leak posted on their twitter? I don’t.
So, why is it we can help the FBI with arrests but any calls to the AFP about hacking/attacks initiated out of Australia gets the “oooh, well, that is a long way away….” treatment.
By gaming company do they mean a gambling company or a company like EA or STEAM
I love that picture. It basically says “there is no legal reason to have a command prompt open on a messy bed!”
using windows 8? no wonder he got busted.
..but at least he was using gloves – so no fingerprints left behind on his touch screen to incriminate him :)
“Obviously not that much of an elite hacker if he was running Windows 8 … normally you’d expect to see something like Linux etc.”
Hello PUTTY and UNIX shell!
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