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Prison for Online Casino Hacker

The UK public and the online casino gambling industry are breathing a collective sigh of relief this week as the UK government finally sentenced a UK young adult to prison for his hacking crimes and for identity theft. Alistair Peckover, 21, was given a second change last year when the courts ruled that the fraudster could take probation rather than a prison sentence for his actions that defrauded the online casinos and betting sites in the UK while using false identities. Peckover was actively hacking the internet through email accounts and gambling sites for two years before the authorities managed to track him down and the courts warned Peckover to stop the hacking and fraud in exchange for a lighter suspended sentence. The loner hacker though was unable to keep from defrauding UK citizens through the internet and is now facing two years in prison.

Peckover’s crimes are pretty severe considering his actions and hacks were specifically acting against unsuspecting citizens all over the world. Although some of Peckover’s targets were within the UK, Peckover used identities stolen from email accounts to create dozens and dozens of accounts at online casinos and betting sites so that he could gamble and spend other people’s money to purchase sports cars, jewelry and other material possessions through his identity fraud. The wide-scale fraud was used to hack more than 500 emails and Peckover went so far as to even steal the identities of three other individuals to the point that he even had multiple passports.

The online casinos have had no form of recourse in this situation since Peckover was able to thoroughly steal multiple elements of their identities, thus passing through the identity checks in place. Although Peckover was given a second chance from the courts just two months after his court warning he was once again caught performing online and gambling fraud.