Canadian police arrest Israeli hacker on suspicion of $1.8 million fraud

By JPOST.COM STAFF
Israeli Ehud Tenenbaum was recently arrested in Montreal along with three others on suspicion of committing a $1.8 million online fraud, Canadian media reported on Friday. Tenenbaum was charged with six counts of fraudulent use of credit card data and one count of a $5,000 fraud. Three of the man arrested were released on bail, and the Israeli was the only suspect to remain in custody for fear that he would flee the country. Investigators were working to establish whether Tenenbaum was the same Ehud Tenenbaum who became famous in the late 1990's after hacking into the Pentagon computer system. In 1998, the then 18-years-old Tenenbaum, who called himself "the Analyzer", was accused of infiltrating the Pentagon's computer system and was suspected of being the mentor of two other California teenagers. His intrusions were described by a Pentagon spokesman as the most organized and systematic attack the department had seen. AP contributed to this report.