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'Thor' sentenced for hacking ATMs using Obama as alias
2011-05-10 07:40

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7557244.html By Cindy George Houston Chronicle May 9, 2011 Unlike the Marvel Comics hero of Asgard who packed cinemas this weekend, a different Thor without superpowers was punished in a Houston federal courtroom Monday for a failed scheme to hack local ATMs using Barack Obama as an alias. Thor Morris, 20, of Jacksonville, N.C., was sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison without parole for attempting to embezzle more than $200,000 from three dozen local automated teller machines last year. According to the criminal complaint, Morris confided in an FBI informant that he planned to use a confidential operator's manual to reprogram Tranax ATMs, as he had done in the past in other states, and make the machines issue $20 for every $1 requested. The fraud charge against Morris came after his plan was uncovered during an investigation initiated about a year ago by the FBI's Cyber Crimes Division. He was arrested April 22, 2010 while attempting to gain unauthorized access into a storefront ATM in far southwest Houston. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/


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