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Dutch police detain alleged Internet hacker
Uzbekistan News.Net Saturday 28th June, 2008
Dutch police have arrested a 20-year-old man in Maastricht on suspicion of wide-scale internet fraud.
The man is suspected of breaking into the internet sites of two US computer game companies and of stealing 50,000 credit card records from a British ticket agency.
He used the credit card records to play online poker and to buy such items as MP3 players, laptop computers and monitors.
The police have now searched the man's house and taken away, among other items, a computer, papers and a rifle.
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