Comcast Hackers Sentenced to Prison

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Four mans that were associated with the hacker group Kryogeniks ,by the names Lewis, Nebel, Jr.a.k.a and co-defendant, were sentenced to 18 months in prisons. 
the way they commit a crime was ,they used their skills in order to redirect all traffic directed to www.comcast.com to website that they'd designed. Therefore, the customers that intended to read their emails and listen to their Emails redirected to the website that they found this message  “KRYOGENIKS Defiant and EBB RoXed COMCAST sHouTz to VIRUS Warlock elul21 coll1er seven.”


The costumers that connected to the website were around 5000 per day and the damages caused by this group of hackers  cost Comcast around $89,578.13 .
The four persons in addition to prison time they punished to pay restitution in the amount that they caused damage.  


My comment
when we talk about Cyber-crime simply we can put them into three categories:
Cyber-crimes against: 1. Person  2. Government  3.property
in this case you can see, it is kind of crime against property which incurred damages to Comcast.
moreover, this is good example of unauthorized modification under property damages that is punishable offence.


Source:Poulsen, By Kevin. "Comcast.net Hijacker Gets 4 Months | Threat Level | Wired.com." Wired News. Web. 02 Nov. 2010. .  


Hacking and cracking are  the most well known among these type of activities.