eweekThe Department of Justice indicted three individuals June 15 who allegedly hacked into the telephone systems of large corporations and entities in the United States and abroad, selling information about the compromised telephone systems to Pakistani nationals residing in Italy.
Along with the U.S. indictments, Italian law enforcement raided approximately 10 locations in four regions of Italy and arrested the financiers of the hacking activity. The DOJ claims the financiers used the information from the hackers to transmit more than 12 million minutes of telephone calls valued at more than $55 million over the hacked networks of victim in the United States alone.
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