Welsh hacker pleads guilty to credit card crime

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A Welsh computer hacker at the centre of a multi-million pound FBI fraud investigation has pleaded guilty to breaking into Internet sites for money, just days before going on trial. In a hearing at Swansea Crown Court, Raphael Gray, a 19-year-old from Clynderwen in West Wales, admitted to twice using stolen credit card information over the Internet. Gray admitted using two stolen credit card numbers to create Web sites. Gray, who is likely to face a prison sentence if convicted of these crimes, was due to stand trial on 2 April on charges of taking part in a £3m Internet fraud. The trial follows an FBI investigation and FBI investigators were expected to appear during the course of the trial. Gray admitted to stealing credit card information from sites including feelgoodfalls.com, mostorefront.com, albionsmo.com and the American Society of Clinical Pathologists' Web site. The teenager had previously pleaded not guilty to charges of breaking section 10 of the Computer Misuse Act -- legislation designed to combat computer crime -- by downloading unauthorised material. Gray has been released on unconditional bail. The British government is gearing up to get tough on computer hackers. It is to launch a National High-Tech Crime Unit, a collaboration between the National Crime Squad (NCS) and the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) with £25m of funding later in April to fight computer crime. Is your PC safe? Find out at the Hackers News Special. Have your say instantly, and see what others have said. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. Let the editors know what you think in the Mailroom. And read other letters.

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i read alot of these so called hacking stories and as a hacker from the hackersclub i,m apalled that cyber police and joe public , keep calling these thieves hackers their not hackers, there theives , i can tell you that the majority of hackers who are registered with such affilate clubs i e., the hackersclub.net/nmap hackers and the like do not have theives on board ?[not knowingly] our[there] aim is to map ports and the like and find vunerabilities, which we do free ,it give other users and corporations a result to see flaws in their products , most hackers do not use microsoft and believe that all software should be freely available to rich and poor [hence] the gnu project and linux ubuntu were born of this idea not just by hackers but by thousands of marvellous peoples who dedicated the time and effort making it what it is to-day like richard stallman and gordon lyon[fyodor] now they would really like you all to get the facts correct hacking is perservering making do and these theives are crackers [cracking bank details] but again not all crackers are theives some just want to share softwares, that have been given to them by donators [nowt wrong with that] just that bill gates don,t like it sez lezlow@hackersclub.net

lezlow 12 November, 2009 16:54
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