An Indian man has been charged with breaking into a company’s Internet domain name registration account. Chetan S. Bendale, of Pune, India, was indicted on computer hacking and extortion charges Thursday. Bendale allegedly took over the MyDomain.com account of technology staffing firm oDesk and changed the password and administrative contact. On July 18, 2009, Bendale started sending oDesk executives a series of threatening e-mails demanding that the company pay him one million dollars or he would release oDesk’s information.”]
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