Betty Ann Adams of TheStarPhoenix.com reports that Brandon Brian Therens, a newly graduated University of Saskatchewan student, pleaded guilty to hacking into the university’s computer in 2007 and downloading the credit card information of about 3,600 students.
Therens also admitted to other frauds and thefts between May and October 2007:
He stole hand-held wireless debit machines and gave himself tens of thousands of dollars in refunds; he installed a key-stroke logger on the public computer in a hotel and used the information to take thousands of dollars from a guest’s Visa account; he made fake identification; and he withdrew thousands from a bank account that illegally had money electronically transferred in from the account of a Saskatoon restaurant.
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Therens was sentenced to two years less a day in jail, to be followed by 18 months probation. He was also ordered to pay $46,782 restitution to nine parties.
Therens still faces charges in Moose Jaw and Regina.
In June 2007, university staff discovered the breach of their computerized student credit card information when someone filled the paper supply in an empty printer and the machine resumed a 300-page print job that had been abandoned the night before, according to an agreed statement of facts presented by Parker.
Therens had obtained 47 pages before the printer ran out of paper. Each page contained the detailed credit card information of 12 students.
Read more on TheStarPhoenix.com.