http://phnompenhpost.com/national/hackers-cut-deal-work-gov%E2%80%99t
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
The Phnom Penh Post
1 October 2014
Two members of “hacktivist” group Anonymous Cambodia convicted of computer
hacking yesterday will be spared further jail time. Instead, they have
been ordered to put their “excellent” IT skills to use combating
cybercrime in the Ministry of Interior.
Bun King Mongkolpanha, 21, alias “Black Cyber”, and Chou Songheng, 20,
alias “Zoro”, were found guilty of IT offences under two articles of the
criminal code at Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday morning and
sentenced to two years in prison.
But their sentences were reduced to five months and 20 days – the amount
of time they have already spent in prison since being arrested in April –
and they are to be released today.
The two former SETEC Institute students are to soon begin paid work
fighting cybercrime with the same Interior Ministry department that worked
with the FBI to arrest them after an eight-month investigation.
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