Hacker's ruinous run ends in capture

Rucking_Fetard

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140514/A_NEWS0803/405140324

In the late hours of April 5, my 14-year-old son, Colm, called Stockton police 911 and reported that he had murdered his mother.
Patrol units rushed to the Stockton home where he lives with his mother, my partner of almost 20 years, Joy Leek. Police pounded on the door.
Joy padded out in her nightgown. "I open the door and there's a big spotlight in my face. And a policeman said, 'Obviously you're not dead.' "
Out in the street numerous patrol cruisers had converged, lights flashing, radios crackling, spotlights lancing her.

Recalled Joy, "I said ... 'Really?' "

My son had not called 911. He was sleeping. What had happened is called "swatting:" fake 911 calls, usually bomb threats or hostage situations, that trigger a SWAT response.

It has been well over a month since a remarkably sophisticated hacker - malevolent, immature or psycho - got his hooks into my family.
Since then our experience has slid between the annoying and the unreal.
I had to keep mum. Law enforcement agencies in eight states and two countries were hunting whoever was causing havoc with swatting, identity theft and costly pranks.


Now I can talk.


It started with the video game Minecraft. Colm (pronounced kull-um) loves the game, which puts the user in a free-range world where he is able to build anything with 3-D cubes.

But like all social gaming, Minecraft has a chat. There, Colm became online friends with Cboy. Cboy never divulged his full name. After a while, he offered Colm a job.

Cboy operated a server with Minecraft "mods," or game enhancements. Users paid a fee for the game. Colm administered the site. In exchange, Cboy gave Colm access to a modest PayPal account.
"He seemed OK," Colm said of Cboy. "He never asked me to do stuff I'm uncomfortable with."

What neither his mom nor I knew is that at one point, in order to set Colm up, Cboy asked for remote control of Colm's computer. During that remote session, Cboy may have implanted malware. Or he hacked Colm's password. Either way, he hacked all the home's computers, phones and Wi-Fi.

Read on.

When ID Theft+Taunting goes to far.

CrinkElite

What a little basterd.
He'll probably get away with it though, He's only 16.

The moral here is don't home-school your kids.

The_Conductor

And hes only 16.......
Little bollox will probably get juvie detention and be out in 2........

Recondite49

The_Conductor wrote: »

And hes only 16.......
Little bollox will probably get juvie detention and be out in 2........

Still it'll be a fairly harsh punishment if that's the case, he'll go in a boy, he'll come out an adult man.

Then again prison apparently does sort the boys from the girls....