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Fermi Lab Compromised by Pirate

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the avast-me-hardy dept.

tttonyyy writes "The US Department of Energy sounded a full scale alert after machines were compromised at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, according to this BBC article. It turns out that the hacker was a student using the machines to download and store music and movies."

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  1. Old news? by iapetus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Um. This happened in 2002 according to the article. I think we've missed the boat on this one... the actual new information is the sentence handed down to the culprit.

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