Spyware app CEO pleads guilty, avoids prison time

[Solomon2]

Nov 26, 7:23 AM EST

Spyware app CEO pleads guilty, avoids prison time

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors are announcing what they say is the first-ever criminal conviction involving the sale of an eavesdropping tool for cellphones.

Hammad Akbar, the CEO of a company that sold the StealthGenie cellphone spyware app, pleaded guilty Tuesday to selling and advertising an interception device. He avoided prison time and was ordered to pay a $500,000 fine.

Prosecutors say StealthGenie could be secretly installed on smart phones. That allowed all their calls, texts and other communications to be remotely monitored.

The 31-year-old Akbar, of Lahore, Pakistan, was arrested in September in Los Angeles and prosecuted in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia. StealthGenie was hosted from a data center in Ashburn, Virginia. The case was investigated by the FBI's Washington Field Office.

 

[Thorough Pro]

off course, invasion of privacy, monitoring emails, telephone calls, text messages and social media websites is a government job.

Nov 26, 7:23 AM EST

Spyware app CEO pleads guilty, avoids prison time

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors are announcing what they say is the first-ever criminal conviction involving the sale of an eavesdropping tool for cellphones.

Hammad Akbar, the CEO of a company that sold the StealthGenie cellphone spyware app, pleaded guilty Tuesday to selling and advertising an interception device. He avoided prison time and was ordered to pay a $500,000 fine.

Prosecutors say StealthGenie could be secretly installed on smart phones. That allowed all their calls, texts and other communications to be remotely monitored.

The 31-year-old Akbar, of Lahore, Pakistan, was arrested in September in Los Angeles and prosecuted in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia. StealthGenie was hosted from a data center in Ashburn, Virginia. The case was investigated by the FBI's Washington Field Office.

 

[Solomon2]

off course, invasion of privacy, monitoring emails, telephone calls, text messages and social media websites is a government job.

In Pakistan government doesn't need a court order to do this stuff, does it? Is it even against the law for individuals or private organizations?

 

[Bratva]

In Pakistan government doesn't need a court order to do this stuff, does it? Is it even against the law for individuals or private organizations?

First of all what's your fetish with pakistan and second of all, Prove your bold sentence, it's your habit of throwing accusations right left up down blindly.