Levin was sentenced to 36 months in a New York prison. Even though hackers with bad intentions definitely out number hackers with good intentions, good still prevails once in a while. The Hacker also obtained the financial records of the crime gang and sent them to prosecutors in both countries. The Eastern Prowler then got into Bank Cash Management Computers through a Swedish internet service. The Eastern Prowler transferred the money through many banks and many countries, which made it nearly impossible to be traced.
Prosecutors have no intention of pursuing the identification of the hacker.
Prosecutors do believe that the Eastern Prowler belongs to a detective agency known as Globalscan Investigations. The paragraph above is like a Robin Hood story, the only problem with it is that there aren t enough Robin Hoods to go around. The FBI is aware of this, and they are doing something about it. The FBI has trained its staff to electronically investigate crimes using laptop computers. A special unit, called the Criminal Squad 37, was set up by the FBI to track down criminals who attack computer systems.