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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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Of course he should be tried 2003-09-12
Anonymous
Sounds like you "no big deal" folks have never dealt with a security breach in your lives...I have. When somebody exploits a security hole (rather than simply reporting it), hundreds if not thousands of man hours need to go into just finding out what that person did, and creating a report of the inc...

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