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A Canadian small-business owner discovered that a hacker broke into his company’s phone voice-mail system and placed hundreds of calls to Bulgaria, costing him $43,000. Alan Davison, owner of HUB Computer Solutions in Winnipeg, ironically offers security products and solutions. However, the only barrier for the hacker was a 4-digit password. Once in, the hacker needed to only use the outbound-transfer feature to place calls overseas.

Davison now is asking Manitoba Telecom Services for a discount on the bill, but the phone company says that since HUB owned all its internal phone-networking equipment, the small business may be liable for the whole thing. Davidson is saying he might have to lay off at least one of his employees to afford this bill. The phone company admitted that they do not believe Davidson made the calls, but they are not in the position to monitor everyone’s usage of the phone system.