April 15, 2008

Cyber criminal stole $1.4 million

A cyber criminal who stole carried out attacks that affect over six hundred people has been sentenced to nine years in prison. Mario Simbaqueba Bonilla aged 40 from Columbia was found guilty of committing computer fraud on grand scale. The proceeds of which netted him around $1.4 million.

Along with his sentence he was given a three year supervision order when he eventually leaves prison and had to pay back $347,000 in restitutions. It was found that he carried many complex attacks via computer to commit identity theft, credit card fraud and other computer based intrusions.

Although his attacks originating in Columbia, actually affected people living in the US and one attack even hit the US Dept of Defence. The money that he had acquired help him buy property all round the world in Hong Kong, France, Jamaica, Italy, Chile and the US too.

Source [National Cyber Security]