Bill Gates Among Victims of Hackers
A teenager arrested in Wales for allegedly hacking into e-commerce Web sites managed to get credit card details on Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and more than 26,000 other accounts from sites in the U.S., Canada, Thailand, Japan and Britain, a newspaper reported. Raphael Gray, 18, was being held on fraud charges after being targeted by a joint operation between the FBI and Welsh police. The FBI said losses connected to the activities of Gray and another teen could exceed $3 million. Gray and his accomplice e-mailed credit card details to NBCi, a subsidiary of the NBC broadcasting group, a London paper said.
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