Seattle Man Could Face up to 20 Years for ID Theft - 11/09/2007
A Seattle man charged for stealing personal information over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks such as Kazaa and Limewire pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday, November 6.
The charges Gregory Kopiloff accumulated include: mail fraud, accessing a protected computer to further conduct fraud, and two other related charges, one being aggravated identity theft.
Kopiloff could receive a maximum of 20 years in prison for mail fraud, along with a maximum of $250,000 in fines.
Kopiloff was arrested earlier in September by federal authorities for identity theft and making fraudulent online transitions using personal information lifted off P2P networks. Kopiloff is the first person in the U.S. to be detained for committing identity theft on a P2P network.
Source: The New York Times
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