The global communications titan AT&T has just said it will drop the lawsuit against a man and his business named Michael Smith from Ipswich... a lawsuit for more then a million dollar bill in outstanding phone bills...
How does one business rack up that much in overages? Well the claim of Michael Smith is that someone 'hacked' into his phone service and made $900,000 worth of calls to Somalia... How expensive is it to call someone in Africa? This of course sounds like someone (or really a team of someones) were calling a lot over a long period of time.
I see two problems with the possibilities here:
If they racked up 900k in phone calls to Somalia in less then a month, wouldn't AT&T notice something was... a miss?
OR
If they racked up that amount over the course of several months... wouldn't all parties notice the increase in the phone bill price?
So obviously it sounds like something else is going on here that we aren't seeing.
Regardless AT&T has given up trying to collect on it. Either because they realized it was there fault and they really did get hacked and lost 900 thou in "billable" minutes, or they decided to cut their losses and head aches by trying to wade through litigation to collect.
What ever the reason... there is one man from Ipswich that is probably literally jumping for joy.
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