Re: Computer hacker claims Hackett

[InfoSec News <isn () C4I ORG>]

Fowarded by: Grant Bayley <gbayley () ausmac net>

On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, InfoSec News wrote:

> http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/story_4465.asp
>
> 21:09 AEDT Friday 17 November 2000
>
> A computer vandal has hacked into the e-mail account of Olympic
> gold medallist Grant Hackett and sent dozens of abusive messages
> to friends, Australian swim team members and swimming clubs.

[...]

> Hackett opened the Hotmail e-mail account about two years ago.
> During the five months of his Olympic preparations he did not
> check the service. Three weeks ago he attempted to log on to the
> account and found his password had changed and a secret password
> message had been replaced with another message containing
> "something quite rude".
>
> "I've gone, 'somebody's got into my Hotmail and started doing
> something with my account trying to be a smart arse'."

[...]

> On its Hotmail website Microsoft Corporation reports that it has
> 65 million accounts world wide and recommends that users change
> their passwords regularly to guard against hackers.

Sure, it's ruined his life, police complaint blah blah blah.  Aside
from his name being "Hackett", you could imagine the laughs I had when
I visited ninemsn to view the article and I saw the following banner
at at the top for Hotmail:

Screenshot:

        http://www.2600.org.au/hackett-hotmail-banner.gif

Not exactly the best media planning/ad placement strategy, methinks.

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