Lamo denies $300,000 database hack

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.

Moral question. 2003-09-15
MartinX

While I admit that the house breaking analogy is flawed, I find the distinction drawn between "Real" and "Virtual" in the minds of many to be greatly troubling.

I think you'd have a hard time convincing any company accountant that the bills for the Servers, Routers, Switches, cabling, manhours, e...

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