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Student owns up to Texas Uni cyber-heist
John Leyden, The Register 2003-03-18

A University of Texas student has been charged with hacking offences following a computer break-in at the university earlier this month that lead to the disclosure of 55,200 past and present University of Texas faculty members and students.

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Student owns up to Texas Uni cyber-heist 2003-03-19
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yeah sure, but the charge doesnt consider it as a misuse of access but as "unauthorised access to a protected computer and using the Social Security number of another person to commit a federal offence"

as far as i concerne i dont see him hack anything - the fact that he could read this informati...

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