Secret Service Reveals Its Records Stolen By Hacker
Do you know what the difference is between a hacker and someone who tracks them down? You have to train an investigator to hack. But a hacker lives the life. The hacker doesn't go home at the end of each day to watch T.V. and drink a beer. No, a hacker drinks a beer and watches T.V. and hacks at the same time. While at home. Or at work. Or school. Wherever. Whenever. It's a lifestyle, not an occupation. Something loved, not learned. That's why the SS and the FBI are sometimes so clueless and often one step behind, despite their expensive computers, fantastic wiretapping tools, and huge budgets. You can't buy cleverness with a checkbook. Anyway, from the AP . . .
WASHINGTON (AP)--A hacker broke into a wireless carrier's network over at least seven months and read e-mails and personal computer files of hundreds of customers, including the U.S. Secret Service agent investigating the hacker, the government said Wednesday.
Nicolas Lee Jacobsen, 21, of Santa Ana, Calif., a computer engineer, has been charged with the break-in in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. Court records said an online offer in March 2004, traced to Jacobsen, claimed hackers could look up the name, Social Security number, birth date and passwords for voice mails and e-mails for T-Mobile customers.
Cherry, the Secret Service spokesman, said the agency's own e-mail servers were not affected by the T-Mobile break-in. "The account was a personal account of a Secret Service agent that was for a time compromised," Cherry said.