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The FBI has nailed a Russian college student accused of stealing documents detailing DirecTV Inc.'s new encryption system and circulating the details among satellite hackers.
The 19-year-old student, Igor Serebryany, was arrested in Los Angeles for allegedly circulating on the Internet hundreds of sensitive documents taken from a law firm where he worked part-time.
The papers detailed DirecTV's latest access cards, the keys needed to decrypt signals in the company's DBS receivers.
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Serebryany was charged under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996.
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