Dad hacks database to fake death and avoid child support pay

[hotep99]

I remember a presentation at DEFCON some years ago on this topic. Most of the state death registration systems had virtually no security or verification at the time. It's probably a stretch to describe this as "hacking" when it was probably more akin to fraudulently filling out a couple of forms.

[mensetmanusman]

The term hacker continues to evolve and spread beyond sql overflow exploits into more mundane social api exploits.

[belinder]

Probably would have gotten away with it if he didn't start selling it as a service

[gus_massa]

Wouldn't the mother just fill a complain in the court 1 month later to solve it?

[bartread]

I thought the same. As ever, most of these people seem to get caught because they get greedy (possibly I've been listening to too many episodes of Darknet Diaries recently).

[nkozyra]

Think so? At some point you'd assume the other parent would be pushing for the payments through some avenue that would lead them to tell her that he's dead.

[thevillagechief]

Looks like he in fact succeeded in avoiding the payments? Like the meme, the task failed successfully. Not sure what happens when he gets out of prison.

[buffet_overflow]

Sounds like he got the double instead of the nothing. The last line of the article mentions he now owes close to 200k, when he had originally owed 100k at the start of the scheme.

I wonder how much he banked from the sold access in the middle.