Hacker charges $43, 000 in calls to Buffalo Grove firm's phone

By KATHY ROUTLIFFE
Pioneerlocal.com
December 8, 2009

"Reach out and trick someone" could be the slogan of a hacker who
charged $43,000 in telephone calls -- mostly to Cuba -- to a Buffalo
Grove worker's company phone within a period of days.

Police reported that an employee at RMS Technologies, 1359 N. Barclay
Blvd., became aware someone had hacked into the phone system to make
free calls after his phone service carrier warned of the unusual
activity between Oct. 9 and 12.

"As far as how the technology works to rack up that many calls, we don't
know,” police Cmdr. Steven Husak said Monday. "(The employee's) phone
carrier alerted him to the situation, and he thought he had resolved it
until he received the bill."