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- 40Hex Number 5 Volume 2 Issue 1 File 001
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- Instigator --- Busted!
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- At 2:40 pm EST, Jan 20, '92 a local cop pulled Instigator (me) out of my very
- entertaining Social Studies class and informed me he, 1 other local cop and
- 2 MCI phone fraud investigators were gonna serve a warrant on my house and
- confiscate my computer shit. So the cop takes me to my house and they start
- disassembling all of my computer stuff, and take all of my notes and shit.
- They filmed all this. They informed me I would be charged with theft of
- services, credit card fraud and a bunch of other shit, like 3 felonys and
- 5 misdimeanors till they were done. Anyways its about a week and a half
- after the incident now and they only formally charged me with theft of
- services. So the worst that is gonna happen is I will get 1 year of
- probation. The best thing is they are thinking of only giving me a citation
- or totally dropping the charges. I am suppose to get my system back after
- the DA comes to my house so I can show him how I did it. As for Digital
- Warfare I wanna give to someone to set up. Anyway I made it to the front
- page of 3 local newspapers so here is one of the articles:
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- (Shit inside the ***( )*** are my comments)
-
- From the front page of the
- Intelligencer Journal
-
- 2 "Hackers" caught stealing phone service
-
- Using sophisticated computers and telephones, two Lancaster County
- computer hackers touched MCI, a Washington-based telephone communications
- network, for approximately $4,700 last year. ***( Sophisticated phones? )***
-
- Their activities represent "only the tip of the iceberg" of
- telecommunications fraud, which carries an annual $1 billion to $1.5 billion
- price tag, according to John Houser, a MCI spokesman. ***( Dick )***
-
- The two are accused of accessing MCI's computer and obtaining "25 card
- numbers, thet we know about," Houser said. "We know they made calls all over
- the United Sates, to Canada, Great Britain, and West Germany"
-
- "None of the card numbers have been issued to Lancaster subscribers,"
- Houser said.
-
- Columbia police are charging an 18 year old borough resident with credit
- card fraud, unlawful use of a computer, theft of services, and criminal
- conspiracy according to Sgt. C. Joseph Smith. Police are withholding his
- identity until he is formally charged, Smith said.
-
- West Donegal Township chief Charles R. Bronte said a fifteen year old
- suspect ***( that's me! )*** living in his jurisdiction was being refered to
- juvenile authorities by the department investigator, Cpl. Kenton Whitebread.
-
- Officers with both departments said this was an entirely new kind of
- criminal case for them.
-
- "I'm still going over our suspectes statement," said Smith, "and even when
- I'm done, I don't think I'm going to understand (all the technical jargon).
- We're getting a lot of help from MCI."
-
- "If our juvenile hadn't cooperated, it's possible we'd still be looking at
- his equipment", Bronte said. "He went into the computer, using his access
- codes," ***( He means I logged on my board )*** " to retrieve the information
- necessary to continue the investigation".
-
- Police confiscated computer telephone equipment, whose value is estimated
- ***( Estimated - Gimme a break!)*** in the thousands of dollars, when they
- executed search warrants at the residences of both suspects, Jan. 20.
-
- "It was a real United Nations collection," said Bronte, "There were a
- number of different manufacturers" of the equipment taken in West Donegal.
- ***( United Nations collection? )***
-
- Most of the equipment taken in Columbia was made by Tandy, Smith said.
-
- Both posessed programs and equipment which allowed their computers to
- generate thousands of random numbers.
-
- Houser said that once an individual had knowledge of MCI's calling card
- format "they could access our computer switching equipment, and begin
- generating random numbers. ***( they make it sound so technical )*** They
- could allow their equipment to run 24 hours a day."
-
- Houser declined discussing the company security, but acknowledged "We
- became aware of an unusual number of calls coming into our computer line. We
- eventually were able to trace those calls back to the originating telephone
- equipment." ***( ANI )***
-
- Bronte said MCI investigators arrived at his department early Monday
- afternoon. The warrant was executed at 2 pm, Bronte said. "We took
- investigators to the suspects home, while Cpl. Whitebread picked up the
- boy at his school.
-
- Smith said the Columbia warrant was served at 5:18pm on Monday.
- The suspect and another individual were working on his computer at the time.
- "They weren't doing anything illegal," he said.
-
- Smith said MCI first became aware of the two local hackers "about
- Dec. 14". They were monitoring them since."
-
- The officers said they did not believe either of the two profited
- from their activities. ***( Free Phone calls! )***
-
- "I think it was just a case of him getting involved in someting that
- was entirely over his head, Bronte said. ***( Yeah, right )***
-
- Houser said MCI's investigation was continuing.
-
- "We have reason to believe they shared some of their information with
- others," he said. "At this time I can tell you we have no other suspects in
- Pennsylvania, but that could change tomorrow."
-
- He said investigators were unsure at present if any of the computer
- data had been transmitted to other hackers. ***( They said one paragraph up
- that they thought we shared some of the information.. Duh )***
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- Update --
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-
- Here is the current casualties on the 476-9696 system, which is owned by
- TeleConnect, a subsidiary of MCI.
-
- Instigator ----- $1970.70 ----- Theft of Services(1 Count)
- Asphi ----- $2700.00 ----- Unlawful Use of Computer
- Credit Card Fraud
- Theft Of Services
- Criminal Conspiracy
- Dekion ----- UNKNOWN ----- UNKNOWN
- Count Zero ----- $83.63 ----- No Charges Just Billed
- VenoM ----- $80.00 ----- UNKNOWN
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- Apparently the head of the operations is Terry Oakes. He is the phone
- Fraud investigator in charge of the TeleConnect Investigations. Give him a
- ring at 800-476-1234 Ext. 3045. Thank you.
-
- -)GHeap
-