London police quiz suspected US DoE cracker

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/31674.html

By John Leyden
Posted: 10/07/2003 

An 18 year-old Londoner suspected of commandering US Department of 
Energy computers to store illicitly obtained music and video files was 
arrested and questioned by police yesterday. 

Officers from the Metropolitan Police's Computer Crimes Unit were 
asked to investigate unauthorised access to 17 unclassified computers 
at a US Department of Energy research laboratory in Botavia, Illinois 
during June 2002 when the trail of the attacker led back to the UK. 

Evidence led police to arrest a 18 year-old from the Woodford Green 
area of London yesterday. The teenager, who can't be named for legal 
reasons, was released on police bail until mid-August pending further 
enquiries, including a forensic examination of a PC seized from his 
home. 

A Metropolitan Police officer told The Register that police are 
working on the belief that no sensitive information was seized during 
the June 2002 attack on the US DoE's network. 

However enquiries into the attack continue, and police are keeping an 
open mind. Officers from the Metropolitan Police's Computer Crimes 
Unit are been assisted in their enquiries by representatives from the 
Office of the Inspector General of the US Department of Energy. 



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