A computer hacker was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty in February to hacking into Internet-phone networks and reselling those services for a profit.
Edwin Andres Pena, 27 years old, transmitted more than 10 million minutes of unauthorized Web-based telephone calls, which resulted in the loss of more than $1.4 million to telecommunications companies, prosecutors said.
Mr. Pena, a Venezuelan citizen, fled the U.S. after his initial arrest in 2006 and was apprehended in Mexico in February 2009, prosecutors said. He was extradited to the U.S. and pleaded guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy to commit computer hacking and wire fraud in February...
