Phreaking hackers hit man with $53,000 phone bill

A Canadian businessman has been lumbered with a Canadian $52,359.59 (US $43,000) phone bill after a hacker broke into his voicemail system and spent nearly three weeks making phone calls to Bulgaria.

According to media reports from Bulgaria and Canada, Winnipeg businessman Alan Davison only discovered that there was a serious problem when he received the large bill from his telephone company yesterday, and discovered a flurry of calls to the Eastern European country between 21 November and 9 December…

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