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Lamo denies $300,000 database hack
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-09-10

Days before going public with his penetration of the New York Times internal network last year, hacker Adrian Lamo created five new user accounts with the LexisNexis database service under the Times corporate account, which he used to rack up $300,000 in charges over the following three months, a federal complaint in New York charges.

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breaking into someone's house analogy doesn't work !!! 2003-09-12
An idiot like the one that posted before me.
I agree... Therefore I am going to install a live oak, steel-plated door, with security keycard access, chrome kick-plate and a grecian door knob on the front of my mini-tower. There, that will keep those nasty hackers out.

Sppff......

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