DOMAIN NAME THIEF GETS 5 YEARS IN PRISON
History Is Made – Case Highlights Cybercrime Threat to Businesses and IndividualsUNION, New Jersey (July 22, 2011): Today computer hacker Daniel Goncalves was sentenced to five years in prison for stealing the domain name P2P.com from Internet entrepreneur Marc Ostrofsky and selling it on eBay.com for $121,000 to former NBA basketball player Mark Madsen. Goncalves is the first domain thief in history to be criminally prosecuted in the United States. Ostrofsky and his partners Albert and Lesli Angel worked to track down Goncalves with the New Jersey Cyber Crimes unit. Goncalves was