Hacker "Coolio" to work on jail PC's

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By The Associated Press
Special to CNET News.com
March 9, 2001, 2:00 p.m. PT

CONWAY, N.H. -- A teenage computer hacker who defaced Web sites was
sentenced Friday to nine months behind bars--and was ordered to help
program the jail's computers.

Dennis Moran, 18, who went by the online name Coolio, broke into an
anti-drug Web site and another site operated by an Internet security
company. The anti-drug site was defaced with pro-drug slogans and
images, including one of Donald Duck with a hypodermic syringe in his
arm.

Prosecutors have said Moran also hacked into Web sites for four
military bases but never saw any of their classified material.

Moran, who was a 17-year-old high school dropout when he committed the
crimes, pleaded guilty in January to misdemeanor charges of hacking.

He was also ordered to pay each victim $5,000.

The break-in at the anti-drug site occurred at about the same time as
major disruptions of sites such as Yahoo and eBay. Moran allegedly had
bragged about those attacks but later said he had only been joking. A
Canadian teenager was later charged with disrupting eBay and Yahoo.

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