[Bad Hacker got burn] a teen got busted

[Hellfighter]

Edison teen gets 5 years for attacks on Web sites
Home News Tribune Online 08/13/05
By LONNIE MACK
STAFF WRITER
hntmetro@thnt.com
MIDDLESEX COUNTY — A 17-year-old Edison boy has been sentenced to five years in prison for causing online attacks on commercial Web sites that authorities say cost the victims more than $1.5 million.

The sentence was imposed on Jasmine Singh yesterday by Judge Frederick DeVesa in Superior Court, New Brunswick.

Singh pleaded guilty earlier this year to two counts of computer theft for causing the attacks against Web sites selling sports jerseys and other sporting goods.

DeVesa also ordered Singh to pay $35,000 in restitution, the amount agreed upon by Singh's attorney, Lawrence Bitterman, and Deputy State Attorney General Kenneth Sharpe.

Singh will serve the sentence at the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility at Yardville.

Singh, a former student at John P. Stevens High School, pleaded guilty in May to using a so-called "bot net" — a network of infected computers — to crash commercial and Internet



communications Web sites. According to the attorney general's office, Singh generated a series of attacks by compromising computers all over the world with a virus and then directing the infected computers to send the victim's company trillions of packets of data every hour.

Sharpe said the attacks cost victims more than $1.5 million — sales the companies lost, and expenses they had to pay out to re-establish Web sites.

Authorities said Singh crashed the sites to give a competing Web site, "cl.com," operated by Jason Arabo, 18, of Southfield, Mich., an advantage in selling retro sports jerseys and other sporting goods.

In pleading for a non-jail sentence yesterday, Bitterman said Singh was lured into the business by Arabo because of a lifestyle of "being bounced around like a Ping-Pong ball from one home to another. He did not form any meaningful relationships. His computer was a place he could go to quietly enjoy himself."

Bitterman also argued the crimes were nonviolent.

Singh apologized and told the judge he is now working full time at a gasoline station and has been attending Perth Amboy Adult School.

Charges are pending against Arabo.

Sharpe, however, told the judge that Singh was not a victim of Arabo.

"He (Singh) enjoyed it. He liked it. He took pride in it," Sharpe said.

"He entered the computers without their permission with the purpose to attack the computers of these hardworking people to bankrupt them or whatever," Sharpe said.

Singh's main target, Sharpe said, was Jersey-Joe.com, based in Delran and another online company, Distant Replays of Atlanta, Ga. Sharpe said at least three other sites were attacked.

Singh, who was accused of more than 30 attacks between Aug. 20, 2002, and August 2003, admitted to more than five of them.

Singh and Arabo were arrested on March 18 following an extensive investigation by state police, the FBI and the state Division of Criminal Justice, triggered by complaints by Jersey-Joe.com.

In December, FBI agents executed a search warrant at Singh's home, confiscating his computer and other items.

Singh was originally charged in juvenile court with two first-degree charges of computer theft, which carry a maximum sentence of 20 years each. After his case was waived up to adult court, the charges were reduced to second-degree offenses that carry a maximum penalty of 10 years.

Source: http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar...=2005508130370

get more the better 10-17 send all to jail time. freaks hack a website should know better.

[Lucky]

ive hacked websites, and its pretty hard, this guy should get this kinda scentence in PC abstinece, cuz most hackers are uber geeks

(when i hack websites i do it at a site that teaches you how and they set up sites for you to hack and home your skills, so i dont do big dmg and delete all pages ect. )

[SilentTrigger]

Originally posted by Lucky
ive hacked websites, and its pretty hard, this guy should get this kinda scentence in PC abstinece, cuz most hackers are uber geeks

(when i hack websites i do it at a site that teaches you how and they set up sites for you to hack and home your skills, so i dont do big dmg and delete all pages ect. )

But why?

[Mstenger404]

Originally posted by SilentTrigger*MFA*
But why?

hacker=stalker

[Lucky]

Originally posted by SilentTrigger*MFA*
But why?

cuzz its just another community that you can have fun at :P