Ehud Tenenbaum became famous in 1998 when he was arrested for hacking computers belonging to NASA, The Pentagon, the US Air Force, the US Navy, the Knesset, MIT, among other high-profile organizations.
10 Facts About Ehud Tenenbaum
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Ehud Tenenbaum hacked into the computers of Palestinian groups and claimed to have destroyed the website of Hamas.
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In 2001, Ehud Tenenbaum pleaded guilty, while stating that he was not attempting to infiltrate the computer systems to get a hold of secrets but rather to prove that the systems were flawed.
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Ehud Tenenbaum was sentenced to a year and a half in prison, of which he served only 8 months following the "Deri Law".
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In 2003, after being freed from prison, Ehud Tenenbaum founded his own Information security company called "2XS".
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Ehud Tenenbaum was charged with six counts of credit card fraud, in the sum of approx.
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US investigators suspected Ehud Tenenbaum of being part of a scam, in which the hackers penetrated financial institutions around the world to steal credit card numbers.
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Ehud Tenenbaum was later extradited to the United States to stand trial, and was in the custody of the US Marshals for more than a year.
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In July 2012, after Ehud Tenenbaum accepted a plea bargain which may have involved cooperation in the investigation, New York district judge Edward Korman sentenced Ehud Tenenbaum to the time already served in prison.
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Ehud Tenenbaum was ordered to pay $503,000 and was given three years' probation.