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Wardriver pleads guilty in Lowe's WiFi hacks
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-06-04

In a rare wireless hacking conviction, a Michigan man entered a guilty plea Friday in federal court in Charlotte, North Carolina for his role in a 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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Wardriver pleads guilty in Lowes WiFi hacks 2004-06-05
Anonymous
This is the kind of thing that should really stand as a timeless lesson for all the other retailers who decide to implement wireless networks (To name a few ones local to me: Best Buy, CompUSA, Krogers) that have customer sensitive data moving across it.

It should be -- but it won't. This is goin...

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