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Chile Court Releases Two Accused Hackers

An AP newswire article, via PhysOrg.com, reports that:

Two Chileans accused of hacking into thousands of government Web sites were freed from jail Wednesday but ordered to stay away from computers while the case is investigated, their lawyer said.

Police accuse Carlos Amigo, 37, known online as SSH-2, and Leonardo Hernandez, 23, nicknamed Nettoxic, of belonging to a team of hackers responsible for breaking into more than 8,000 Web sites around the world, including that of the U.S. space agency.

They were arrested Nov. 7 along with two underage friends. The twin brothers, who were not identified or jailed due to their age, acted under the names Codiux and Phnx, police said.

The arrests resulted from eight months of investigation with the help of authorities in the United States, Israel and several South American countries, police said.

posted by Fergie @ 11/15/2006 05:19:00 PM