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Revenge-seeking university employee hacks into server
From: InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 01:30:39 -0500 (CDT)
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040602p2a00m0dm011000c.html Mainichi Shimbun Japan June 2, 2004 A private university employee who hacked into the institution's computer server in retaliation for being demoted has been arrested, Tokyo police said. Ryoichi Nakayama, 47, a clerk at Takachiho University in Suginami-ku, Tokyo, is accused of violating the anti-hacking law. "I committed the crime because I'm no longer able to do computer-related work," he was quoted as telling investigators. Nakayama used his own computer and a secret password to illegally access the university's server on over 100 occasions between October and December last year. He looked at e-mail sent to colleagues and made its bulletin board inaccessible, investigators said. Nakayama was hired as a computer expert at the university in 1998. However, the university transferred him to its library as a clerk in May last year after holding him responsible for defects in its computer system's security network. _________________________________________ ISN mailing list Sponsored by: OSVDB.org
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