Members
  • Total Members: 14176
  • Latest: toxxxa
Stats
  • Total Posts: 42872
  • Total Topics: 16081
  • Online Today: 3988
  • Online Ever: 51419
  • (01. January 2010., 10:27:49)









Author Topic: Hacker fails in bid for lottery prize  (Read 2622 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Samker

  • SCF Administrator
  • *****
  • Posts: 7528
  • KARMA: 322
  • Gender: Male
  • Whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
    • SCforum.info - Samker's Computer Forum
Hacker fails in bid for lottery prize
« on: 09. July 2009., 07:31:29 »


A COMPUTER programmer tried to snatch a 33.05 million yuan (US$4.84 million) lottery prize by hacking into a lottery center's computer system in south China's Guangdong Province.

Shenzhen City police grabbed the hacker, surnamed Cheng, when he went to claim the prize on June 12.

Shenzhen Welfare Lottery Center workers had detected anomalies in the computer system after the lottery results were revealed on June 9. There were nine winning numbers instead of the four expected. Investigations showed that the extra five numbers, all sold in Shenzhen, were fake.

Police confirmed the computer system had been hacked.

Police caught Cheng when he came to the lottery center on June 12 to claim the prize of 33.05 million yuan for the five fake numbers.

The lottery center recalculated the jackpot for the four legitimate winners and increased the prizes from 6.61 million yuan to 8.62 million yuan.

Cheng is a software engineer with a technology company which worked with the Shenzhen lottery center, police said. He used Trojan Horse programs to attack the center's computer system and inserted his five winning numbers.

(Shanghai Daily)

Samker's Computer Forum - SCforum.info

Hacker fails in bid for lottery prize
« on: 09. July 2009., 07:31:29 »

 

With Quick-Reply you can write a post when viewing a topic without loading a new page. You can still use bulletin board code and smileys as you would in a normal post.

Name: Email:
Verification:
Type the letters shown in the picture
Listen to the letters / Request another image
Type the letters shown in the picture:
Second Anti-Bot trap, type or simply copy-paste below (only the red letters):www.scforum.info:

Enter your email address to receive daily email with 'SCforum.info - Samker's Computer Forum' newest content:

Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Advertising