Wardriver Pleas Guilty to LOWEs Hacks - GoFuckYourself.com

jacked · 06-05-2004, 09:22 AM

In a rare wireless hacking conviction, a Michigan man entered a guilty plea Friday in federal court in Charlotte, North Carolina for his role in a scheme to steal credit card numbers from the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores by taking advantage of an unsecured wi-fi network at a store in suburban Detroit.

Brian Salcedo, 21, faces an a unusually harsh 12 to 15 year prison term under federal sentencing guidelines, based largely on a stipulation that the potential losses in the scheme exceeded $2.5 million. But Salcedo has agreed to cooperate with the government in the prosecution of one or more other suspects, making him eligible for a sentence below the guideline range.

One of Salcedo's two codefendants, 20-year-old Adam Botbyl, is scheduled to plead guilty Monday, assistant U.S. attorney Matthew Martins confirmed. Botbyl faces 41 to 51 months in prison, but also has a cooperation deal with the prosecutors, according to court filings. The remaining defendant, 23-year-old Paul Timmins, is scheduled for arraignment on June 28th.

In 2000, as a juvenile, Salcedo was one of the first to be charged under Michigan's state computer crime law, for allegedly hacking a local ISP.

According to statements provided by Timmins and Botbyl following their arrest, as recounted in an FBI affidavit filed in the case, the pair first stumbled across an unsecured wireless network at the Southfield, Michigan Lowe's last spring, while "driving around with laptop computers looking for wireless Internet connections," i.e., wardriving. The two said they did nothing malicious with the network at that time.

It was six months later that Botbyl and his friend Salcedo hatched a plan to use the network to steal credit card numbers from the hardware chain, according to the affidavit.

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jimmyf · 06-05-2004, 09:27 AM

Brian Salcedo, 21, faces an a unusually harsh 12 to 15 year prison term under federal sentencing guidelines, based largely on a stipulation that the potential losses in the scheme exceeded $2.5 million. But Salcedo has agreed to cooperate with the government in the prosecution of one or more other suspects, making him eligible for a sentence below the guideline range.

I don't think it's harsh, they should get the max. 15 years. fuck' em

jacked · 06-05-2004, 09:32 AM

i doubt it was neccesary for them to sit directly in the parking lot thats definately where they fucked up... they could have probably parked a decent distance away and still would have been able to access the network

smokingdawn · 06-05-2004, 09:32 AM

It is not harsh..he deserves what he gets

V_RocKs · 06-13-2005, 02:37 PM

sumphatpimp · 06-13-2005, 03:04 PM

interesting.

and it's not a freaking MJ thread.

06-05-2004, 09:22 AM	#1
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06-05-2004, 09:27 AM	#2
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