Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: VAX Debug 12-Feb-1990 1040 Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Hacker Group Accused of Scheme Against BellSouth Message-ID: <3799@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 12 Feb 90 15:43:05 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 36 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 97, message 1 of 7 The following is extracted from the "Vogon News Service," VNS Computer News section, edited by Tracy Talcott. VNS enjoys a worldwide readership of over 7800 Digital employees. Hackers - Accused of scheme against BellSouth. Legion of Doom Group. Federal grand juries in Chicago and Atlanta indicted four alleged computer hackers in what authorities called a fraud scheme that could potentially disrupt emergency "911" telephone service throughout nine Southern states. The men, alleged to be part of a closely knit cadre of computer hackers known as the Legion of Doom, gained access to the computer system controlling telephone emergency service of BellSouth Corp., the Atlanta-based telecommunications giant. The Chicago indictment said members of the Legion of Doom are engaged in disrupting telephone service by entering a telephone company's computers and changing the routing of telephone calls. The hackers in the group also fraudulently obtain money from companies by altering information in their computers, the indictment said. The hackers transferred stolen telephone-computer information from BellSouth to what prosecutors termed a "computer bulletin board system" in Lockport, Ill. In turn, the men planned to publish the computer data in a hacker's magazine, the grand jury charged. -Jeff E. Nelson -Digital Equipment Corporation -Internet: jnelson@tle.enet.dec.com -Affiliation given for identification purposes only. [Moderator's Note: Do you, or do any readers have the names of the chaps who were indicted? What BBS were they using? PT]