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2nd October 2009, 05:30 PM
Fargo was a big member on Shadowcrew and Carderplanet, he was convicted in Leeds of swiping over ?6.5million and sentenced to 6 years along with his partner (raptor) who was caught at a later date. I found this article on him after he "hacked" into some prison network recently. Go Fargo!
A jailed hacker shut down a prison's entire computer system - after bosses gave him the job of programming it.
Douglas Havard, 27, serving six years for stealing up to ?6.5million using forged credit cards over the internet, was approached after governors wanted to create an internal TV station but needed a special computer program written.
He was left unguarded and hacked into the system's hard drive at Ranby Prison, near Retford, Notts. Then he set up a series of passwords so no one else could get into the system.
The blunder emerged a week after the Sunday Mirror revealed how an inmate at the same jail managed to get a key cut that opened every door.
Havard was put in segregation as punishment. But he left the system crippled. A prison source said: "It's unbelievable that a criminal convicted of cyber-crime was allowed uncontrolled access to the hard drive. He set up such an elaborate array of passwords it took a specialist company to get it working."
A Prison Service spokesman said the breach was being investigated, adding: "Prisoners are not allowed unsupervised access to computers. The prisoner was not able to access records of any other prisoners."
Source - http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/09/27/conputer-meltdown-115875-21703149/
A jailed hacker shut down a prison's entire computer system - after bosses gave him the job of programming it.
Douglas Havard, 27, serving six years for stealing up to ?6.5million using forged credit cards over the internet, was approached after governors wanted to create an internal TV station but needed a special computer program written.
He was left unguarded and hacked into the system's hard drive at Ranby Prison, near Retford, Notts. Then he set up a series of passwords so no one else could get into the system.
The blunder emerged a week after the Sunday Mirror revealed how an inmate at the same jail managed to get a key cut that opened every door.
Havard was put in segregation as punishment. But he left the system crippled. A prison source said: "It's unbelievable that a criminal convicted of cyber-crime was allowed uncontrolled access to the hard drive. He set up such an elaborate array of passwords it took a specialist company to get it working."
A Prison Service spokesman said the breach was being investigated, adding: "Prisoners are not allowed unsupervised access to computers. The prisoner was not able to access records of any other prisoners."
Source - http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/09/27/conputer-meltdown-115875-21703149/