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Teen hacker gets six months in detention center
From: William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 02:15:01 -0600
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-4159814.html?tag=st.ne.1005.thed.ni By Reuters Special to CNET News.com December 14, 2000, 10:10 p.m. PT HONG KONG - A teenage computer hacker in Hong Kong has been sentenced to a maximum of six months in a detention center for causing the network of a leading local Internet service provider to crash, a court official said Friday. Under the law, 19-year-old Choi Kong-lam's release within the six-month time period will be at the discretion of the officer in charge of the detention center, the official added. Choi, was convicted Nov. 30 of causing criminal damage, staged a string of hacker attacks between January and April this year against the networks of the then Cable & Wireless HKT, the territory's main telecom company. HKT was taken over by Internet company Pacific Century Cyberworks in August. In one attack in January, Choi succeeded in hacking into the HKT network causing an hour-long system shutdown. The English-language South China Morning Post, quoting a police officer who investigated the case, said this was the first case of its kind in Hong Kong. Earlier this month, the government proposed new laws to dramatically increase penalties for hackers. *==============================================================* "Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen Alfred. M. Gray, USMC ================================================================ C4I.org - Computer Security, & Intelligence - http://www.c4i.org *==============================================================* ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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