Default Passwords Blamed In $55M PBX Hacks 102
An anonymous reader writes "The Washington Post is reporting that the US Justice Department has indicted three residents of the Philippines for breaking into more than 2,500 corporate PBX systems in the United States and abroad. The government says the hackers sold access to those systems to operators of call centers in Italy, which allegedly made 12 million minutes of unauthorized phone calls through the system, valued at more than $55 million. The DOJ's action coincides with an announcement from Italian authorities today of the arrest of five men there who are suspected of funneling the profits from those call centers to terrorist groups in Southeast Asia."
12345 post (Score:0, Funny)
12345
Which one was it? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:12345 post (Score:3, Funny)
access denied
(hint: the default password for the system is "qwert" if this is your first time accessing it)
Re:That's a spicy meatball! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:12345 post (Score:4, Funny)
That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage.
Re:Hacking? (Score:3, Funny)
You must work for LifeLock
Re:Hacking? (Score:3, Funny)
Indeed. The rules of IT:
Re:12345 post (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's a spicy meatball! (Score:3, Funny)
That's no way to talk about the phone company.
simple solution.. (Score:3, Funny)
Missed Call Centrees (Score:4, Funny)
Re:simple solution.. (Score:3, Funny)
Nobody would suspect the
spanishinquisition