WASHINGTON: A Pakistan national has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a conspiracy to “unlock” phones from AT&T’s network, a scheme the company says cost it more than $200 million. Muhammad Fahd, 35, of Karachi, recruited an employee of an AT&T call center in Bothell, Washington, via Facebook in 2012, and began bribing that employee and his coworkers to use their credentials to unlock phones. He persisted even after the company detected the initial scheme and fired two of the workers involved, prosecutors said. More than 1.9 million phones were unlocked as part of the conspiracy, AT&T’s forensic analysis found. Worse yet, my misconduct destroyed the lives of those around me.”Lasnik ordered him to pay more than $200 million in restitution.

Source: Pakistan Today September 17, 2021 18:45 UTC