Feds Allege Adconion Employees Hijacked IP Addresses for Spamming
Summary: Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of California named four Adconion Direct employees - Jacob Bychak, Mark Manoogian, Petr Pacas, and Mohammed Abdul Qayyum - in a ten-count indictment charging conspiracy, wire fraud, and electronic mail fraud, all of whom have pleaded not guilty. The government alleges that between December 2010 and September 2014 the men sent forged letters to an Oklahoma hosting firm, Hostwinds, claiming authorization to use inactive IP address blocks registered to others, then routed commercial spam through that space.
Why it matters: The case spun off from a larger ongoing federal investigation into the company's commercial email practices, and prosecutors are working with cooperating witnesses including a confidential informant; with IPv4 addresses fetching $15-$25 each on the open market, dormant address blocks registered to others are now a criminal target, not just an administrative one.
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