Russia - According to Press Service of Kaluga Department of FSB (Federal Security Service), a proceeding was caused against student of one of Kaluga universities under articles 272 "Access to computer information without right", 273 "Creation, spreading and using malicious computer software" and 165 "Causing property damage by fraud or abuse of trust". It is established that young man using the Internet from his home computer committed illegal access to computers of other users connected to the Internet with help of special software. He copied encrypted system files that contained other users' login names and passwords (like "passwd" in Linux), decoded them and obtained control over their accounts.
http://www.crime-research.org/news/03.15.2004/133

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