Volume V

Issue : 1: January 11, 2007

• Cisco Sues Apple for "iPhone" Trademark Infringement
• EFF Backs DontDateHimGirl.com in Defamation Case
• Gang Members Jailed for Identity Theft Operation
• British Pop Charts to Include Internet Downloads
• UK Introduces New E-Communication Requirements
• French Court Rules that Sony Deceived Consumers
• Boeing Employee Fired over Laptop Theft
• Court Dismisses Patent Suits Against Google

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Gang Members Jailed for Identity Theft Operation

Three members of an ID-theft gang have been jailed in London for using stolen credit card numbers and creating false identities to buy goods that were then resold on eBay. The men used fake identities, including falsified and forged passports, to open bank and PayPal accounts in the name of individuals in countries including the United Kingdom and the United States. One of the gang members was also found guilty of perverting the course of justice for flicking an electrical switch during his arrest that wiped databases and triggered intricate layers of encryption on the gang’s computer systems, which the Serious and Organised Crime Agency was unable to crack. Although this action made much of the data relating to the gang's ten-year operation inaccessible, the police were able to find evidence of over a million dollars of transactions between 2003 and 2006.

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