US Busts Military Network Hacker

yorgasor writes " KATU has an article announcing the case of a mysterious hacker who has broken into roughly 100 military networks has been solved. The hacker is a British citizen and authorities were considering extradition for the case. Although no networks containing classified information were compromised, they do consider the hacker to be a professional rather than recreational due to the large number of networks he hacked."

Comments

Re:This is not 'hacking'

[lpontiac]

thats what breaking into the US millitary is, terrorism

No, it isn't. Terrorism is the use of violence and/or threats to frighten a civilian population, to coerce or punish them.

Re:100 Sites?

[Anonymous Coward]

> Anybody have any good stories of catching elusive hackers, or insights into how they might have got him?

The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll is an engaging story of a grad student assigned to track down a 75 cent discrepency in computing resources. He eventually uncovers a ring of crackers working out of Germany for the KGB.

Read a review .