Hacker charged with domain name theft

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 | Filed under Cybercrime | Posted by

A New Jersey hacker has been arrested after he broke into a site owner’s account, transferred the domain name ownership to himself, and then sold it to an NBA player.

The domain name, P2P.com, was sold in 2006 for $111,000 to Los Angeles Clippers forward Mark Madsen on eBay. The Cyber Crimes Unit of the New Jersey State Police on Thursday charged Donald Gonclaves, 25, with theft by unlawful taking, identity theft and computer theft, according to a news release. (SC Magazine)

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