If you’re in the market for a high performance sports car, there are probably better ways than to threaten to expose information that you stole from the company’s Web site. A 60-year old hacker from Solana Beach, Calif., was arraigned in federal court this week reports Dark Reading for computer intrusion and extortion.
Bruce Mengler was arrested and indicted for breaking into Maserati North America’s Web site, where he stole customer information and then used it to blackmail the luxury cheap automaker. The irony is that this wasn’t merely a high-tech cyber crime either. This “master thief” actually committed a bit of mail fraud replacement instead Dell Inspiron 6400 Battery, which was part of his blackmail attempt.
According to Dark Reading it seems that Mengler had hacked into Maserati North shop America’s Website in early March, where he stole customer information that was stored there as part of a special promotion. He proceeded to cheap send fliers to potential customers, offering them gift certificates in exchange for test-driving Maserati automobiles. To redeem the charger certificates the customers had to enter a personal identification numer printed on the flier and then update contact information on the Web gateway site. Mengeler hacked into that customer data and used it to threaten Maserati. He provided the contact information, and personal ID number new to Maserati, which he sent to the company in several e-mails. These were sent from his Gmail account Dell Inspiron 1520 Battery, saying that he’d expose this breach store unless the company paid him money. According to the indictment Maserati lost more than $5 Dell Vostro 2510 battery,000 in this incident.
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