Monday, February 26, 2007

Men Make Plea Deal in MySpace Extortion Case

An AP newswire article by Linda Deutsch, via The Globe and Mail, reports that:

Two young Long Island men accused of trying to extort MySpace.com by developing code to track users pleaded no contest Monday to illegal computer access in a bargain with the prosecution.

Two counts of attempted extortion and another illegal computer access count were dropped in the deal, which gave the defendants three-year probationary terms. Each had faced up to nearly four years in prison.

Shaun Harrison, 19, and Saverio Mondelli, 20, of Suffolk County, were accused of demanding $150,000 (U.S.) as a consulting fee from MySpace. The pair were offering the code as a service on their own website for $29.95 and claimed to be developing an unbreakable version.

The popular MySpace social networking site is supposed to offer anonymity, but Mr. Harrison and Mr. Mondelli were offering a means to acquire e-mail addresses and Internet protocol addresses of users, the prosecution said.

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