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Wardriver pleads guilty in Lowe's WiFi hacks
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-06-04

In a rare wireless hacking conviction, a Michigan man entered a guilty plea Friday in federal court in Charlotte, North Carolina for his role in a scheme to steal credit card numbers from the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores by taking advantage of an unsecured wi-fi network at a store in suburban Detroit.

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Wardriver pleads guilty in Lowes WiFi hacks 2004-06-05
Anonymous


It's time to start asking Lowe's for an explanation of why they were using an unsecured wireless network. If it's unsecured because it needed to work with telephones and scanners, then it should have been firewalled from customer data and other stores.

If you are getting angry at corporate irresponsibility such as this, then it's time to write a letter to Lowe's asking them for an explanation and their corrective actions. It's time to demand companies quit treating customer information like Pokemon cards.

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