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Long prison term for Lowe's wi-fi hacker
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-12-16

A 21-year-old Michigan man was sentenced to nine years in federal prison Wednesday in federal court in Charlotte, North Carolina for his role in a failed 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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Re: Long prison term for Lowe's wi-fi hacker 2006-03-06
Anonymous
The conviction was based on the amount of damage he could have done. That includes every credit card that is ever used at all of the lowes--forever. 2.5 million is low ball. I would be very pissed off if these guys had just explored the network with no intension to do anything 'evil' and recieved 9 ...

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