Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 hacker who posed equally a academy graduate to arrive at access to the e-mails of hundreds of unsuspecting students has been given a suspended prison theatre judgement too ordered to pay to a greater extent than than £20,000 inward costs too compensation.
Daniel Woo, a 23-year-old Bulgarian national, was sentenced for offences nether the Misuse of Computers Act on 25 November.
Woo was arrested inward Nov 2006 at the University of London's School of Oriental too African Studies after beingness spotted yesteryear information technology staff investigating anomalies inward the running of the estimator network.
He used diverse hacking techniques to pause a break of students' passwords, thereby gaining access to their accounts. Woo thence placed estimator software known equally 'Cain too Able' on a break of machines, which enabled him to collect farther pupil passwords too get together traffic passing through the university's estimator network.
It was after established that fraud had taken house on a break of the compromised payment accounts.
Woo has equally good been banned from entering whatever university, college or house of higher instruction without the consent of constabulary for 12 months.
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