ZGram - 12/9/2002 - "FBI: Hacker stole 80,000 credit cards"

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ZGRAM - Where Truth is Destiny

December 9, 2002

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

What an odd story!  Why do I get the feeling that there might be more 
to it than meets the eye?

Also, why on earth are the Palestinians brought into the ring?  Again 
to blur the boundaries and fudge the evidence?

An *Israeli* was arrested on suspicion of having stolen thousands of 
credit card numbers.  Palestinians have nothing to do with this story!

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FBI: Hacker stole 80,000 credit cards

Monday, December 9, 2002

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli police, aided by the FBI, arrested an 
Israeli suspected of hacking into computers of a U.S.-based 
electronics company and stealing personal information, including the 
credit card numbers of some 80,000 customers, according to court 
document released Sunday.

David Sternberg, 24, of the port city of Haifa, was arrested last 
week while driving in a stolen car, police said. The FBI notified the 
Israelis he was wanted in 2000 and police began searching for him in 
2001, according to the transcript of his detention hearing.

Sternberg allegedly broke into the computers of a large U.S. company 
that sells CD-ROMs and DVDs, but police refused to release the name 
of the company. The court document also did not mention the company's 
name.

"It's a company in the (United) States. The FBI had been in 
connection with us about this case. ... He (Sternberg) was listed as 
wanted for investigation," police spokesman Gil Kleiman said.

The U.S. Embassy spokesman said he had no immediate information about the case.

In more than two years of Israeli-Palestinian violence, cyberwar has 
become an integral part of the fighting as Israeli and Palestinian 
hackers attack rival Web sites and computers -- crashing, jamming and 
overwriting systems.

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( Source:  http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/12/09/israel.hacker.ap/ )