Japan arrests woman for email snooping

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/20928.html

By Linda Harrison
Posted: 10/08/2001 at 09:43 GMT

A Japanese woman has been arrested for allegedly snooping around a
colleague's email account.

Kumiyo Kishi is the first person in the country to be arrested for
breaking the electronic communications projects law, the Mainichi
Daily News reports.

The 30-year-old from Tokyo is accused of using a computer at work to
read emails in the account of her co-worker.

When the co-worker changed the password on her account, Kishi
allegedly contacted the ISP and pretended to be the woman. The ISP,
which was not identified, told her the password after she claimed to
have forgotten it.

She then accessed the co-worker's account and read incoming and
outgoing emails between May 9 and June 1.



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