You know when the FBI is getting more involved with cyber crime when they put someone on their most wanted list for hiring some hackers to take down a competitors website.  It wasn’t just the competition that suffered though: because of the damage the hackers did to this competing website, Amazon.com as well as Department of Homeland Security website were rendered useless for a short period of time.  Through adding a most wanted list on their websites for criminals less prone to violence, it will be interesting to see how well it works for capturing various cyber criminals.

A former technology company executive charged with hiring hackers to attack a competitor’s Web site has joined the FBI’s most-wanted list, the latest sign of the federal law enforcement agency’s growing interest in cyber-crime.

In August, a federal grand jury indicted Saad “Jay” Echouafni, 37, the former chief executive of Sudbury, Mass.-based Orbit Communication Corp., on charges of hiring the hackers to take down the Web sites of a large television services company called weaknees.com. The attacks, FBI investigators said, made the company’s Web site temporarily unavailable, as well as the Web sites for Amazon.com and the Department of Homeland Security. The attacks caused more than $2 million in damage, prosecutors said.[more]

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