In 2021, a small logistics company in Eastern Europe downloaded a cracked Ozeki 8.1 from a torrent site. The crack worked for three weeks—then the server began sending premium-rate SMS to a number in the Maldives, 24/7. The GSM modem attached to the server burned through $12,000 in SIM card credit before the administrator noticed. Moreover, the crack had installed a keylogger that captured their main SMPP aggregator password, leading to credential theft. The resulting cleanup, legal fees, and lost business totaled over $50,000. A legitimate Ozeki license would have cost $890.