Lin Mun Poo is a 32-year old hacker from Malaysia who is known for cracking the firewall of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank last June 2010 and stole with more than 400,000 credit card numbers. This is in contrary to the statement issued by Cleveland Fed that Poo only hacked into a network of at least 10 test computers and no Fed data was accessed.

Poo also confessed of breaking into computer networks of various international finance centers. Prosecutors added that on August 2010, he also hacked a major Department of Defense contractor which manage systems for highly sensitive military operations. Some of known systems he broke are FedComp, Firemen’s Association of the State of New York and the Mercer County New Jersey Teachers

Just hours after he touched down in New York on October 21,2010, he was arrested by Secret Service agents in Brooklyn selling 30 stolen credit card numbers for $1,000.  Agents also found a heavily encrypted laptop that contained millions of financial account data. He is now in custody and pending a court appearance.

If convicted, he will face a maximum 10-year sentence for four counts of hacking, identity theft and fraud.

Source: http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/2010/2010nov18.html

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