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T-Moblile Cracker Pleads Guilty

Posted by samzenpus on from the go-directly-to-jail dept.

hackajar writes "The Register is reporting Nicholas Lee Jacobsen plead guilty to cracking into T-Mobile's phones. He was picked up in mid October of last year in the "Operation Firewall" sweep by the FBI. He faces "maximum five years' prison and a $250,000 fine" according to the site."

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  1. Summary is misleading... by FrYGuY101 · · Score: 5, Informative
    He cracked into the network, not just phones... from TFA:
    Nicholas Lee Jacobsen accessed US Secret Service email, obtained customers' passwords and Social Security numbers, and downloaded candid photos taken by Sidekick users, including Hollywood celebrities, as we reported in January.
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  2. Few thoughts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    As I recall, he wasn't picked up in the Operation Firewall sweep (although he would have been), instead, he turned himself in several days before the arrests.

    Secondly, the maximum five year/$250,000 fine thing is standard for a single felony. In all likelyhood he will get MUCH less, especially because he cooperated and plead guilty.

  3. Operation Firewall by mboverload · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is an article about Operation Firewall. Interesting that wikipedia does not yet have an entry on it... http://www.viruslist.com/en/news?id=154205192

  4. Better article by mboverload · · Score: 4, Informative
    This article has WAY more information. Great read

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/12/hacker_pen etrates_t-mobile/

  5. Re:Secret Service! by digitalchinky · · Score: 5, Informative

    A great deal of inter-organisation banter is considered 'unclassified' so it makes sense to use public systems that are already in place - saves money all round. Also workers will send personal stuff like banking and email to friends and family, it's got to leave the 'secret service' building somewhere.

    I seriously doubt he got anything hard core. Air Gap - (and no, I did not say WiFi gap)