Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucselx!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: bfalcon@rescon.uucp (Bob Falcon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: IDG Hackers Message-ID: <14814@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 18 Nov 90 10:23:17 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 45 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 833, Message 2 of 13 Hi all, I just ran across this in {Digital News} [ 11/12/90 ] : H A C K E R S C O S T I D G A missing poster from a Gamepro subscription, a video-game monthly magazine, prompted two Staten Island, N.Y., teen-age brothers to break into the telephone mail system at International Data Group's Peterborough, N.H., office - where Gamepro is published - and cause $2.4 million worth of damage. The computer hackers, 14- and 17-year-olds, apparently made more than 500 calls to the IBM Rolm telephone system, recorded bomb threats and obscenities, changed passwords and erased advertising orders. Agents of the U.S. Secret Service and the New York State Police arrested the youths and charged them with a host of misdemeanors, including computer tampering, aggravated harassment and unauthorized use of a computer. There is also a full page article about Cliffort Stoll's book "The Cuckoo's Egg", on page 66. Acording to the article , he's a Computer Security GURU [now], and the last American hero of the now defunct Cold War. This was DIGITAL's NEWSmaker Interview in the last issue. Anyhoo, Have a good one! Catchya later, Bob Falcon [ Co-Sysop : Turbo 386 Remote Access ] [ (1:273/906) @Fidonet ] [ (215) 745-9774 HST/DS ] internet: bfalcon@rescon.uucp or bfalcon@alba2l.uucp uucp: [backbonesite]!bpa!alba2l!rescon!bfalcon [Moderator's Note: Talk about naughty, spoiled children! I hope their parents are forced to pay restitution for the damages done. With a little luck, maybe the judge will send the older one to jail for awhile and the younger one to a juvenile reform school and order them both to stay away from computers for at least ten years. PAT]