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Khalid Shaikh, prolific app creator and former YouSendIt CEO, busted by FBI
Khalid Shaikh has been indicted by a grand jury for four counts of mail fraud. The FBI says Shaikh was involved in 4 denial of service attacks against the the firm he founded, YouSendIt, which crippled the content delivery company's servers. According to the FBI, Shaikh was one of YouSendIt's founders when the company was established in 2004. He served as the company's chief executive officer until August 2005. He then served as the company's chief technology officer until he left the company in November 2006.
In August, Mobile Crunch reported that Shaikh had been banned from the iPhone app store after creating more than 900 useless apps that were mostly links to websites. How they got through the app approval process is another story.
For his part, Shaikh claims he is innocent. The maximum penalty for each count of mail fraud is five years imprisonment, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000, plus restitution if appropriate.
[Via The Alarm Clock]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
eric f. said 11:04AM on 11-01-2009
So a DNS attack is considered mail fraud? interesting...
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Jumanjo said 4:53PM on 11-01-2009
ApacheBench is not a DNS attack.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.html
You likely meant DOS attack is my guess.
eric f. said 5:27PM on 11-01-2009
Ok... So a DOS attack is considered mail fraud? interesting...
thomasv said 12:31AM on 11-02-2009
Where does it say that it was a DNS or an attack using Apache bench? A apache bench user is no different then a misbehaving search engine.
Macopotamus said 1:21PM on 11-01-2009
Check your sources, but I think it's almost certainly "Khalid Shaikh" not Shaihk, e.g. this is his very hyperbole LinkedIn profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/yousendit
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Mel Martin said 1:33PM on 11-01-2009
You are quite right. We took the name off the FBI release, but they appear to have amended it, so I'm updating the post. Thanks for the note.
Mel
TUAW
Macopotamus said 1:40PM on 11-01-2009
You missed a couple of "Shaihk"'s in the first paragraph also...
ifokust said 8:58PM on 11-01-2009
He's ****ed! A conviction on any one count is enough for justice here.
Do the crime, be prepared to do the time!
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