BELTON — An unknown number of hackers attacked the Bell County phone system last week and rang up potentially thousands of dollars in fraudulent charges.
Jim Chandler, director of Bell County’s technological services department, told the Bell County Commissioners Court on Monday that on two separate occasions hackers were able to exploit weaknesses in the county’s phone system to enable them to place outgoing calls that appeared to be coming from, and be billed to, Bell County.
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