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Dutch Police Arrest Kournikova Author.


From: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson () TREACHERY NET>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:29:31 -0800

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Hi folks,

        I figured this was appropriate for the forum here since it's not
often we see action this quickly following such an incident.

        Whether they got the actual perpetrator or just some mug who
decided to brag remains to be seen...but it appears that Excite@Home
helped accelerate the investigation.

        Feb. 14 - Dutch police arrested a computer hacker Wednesday who
        claimed he wrote the Anna Kournikova computer virus that snarled
        e-mail around the world this week, officials said.

        http://www.msnbc.com/news/529834.asp
        http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/02/14/kournikova.virus/

- -Jay

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