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[ISN] Group of Hackers Arrested in Buryatia
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Oliver_Fr=F6mel?=)
Tue Feb 9 20:47:47 1999
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Oliver_Fr=F6mel?= <ofroemel@prs-gmbh.de>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 02:22:50 +0100
Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Oliver_Fr=F6mel?= <ofroemel@prs-gmbh.de>
...seems they are finally getting up to the big picture..
1/28/99
Group of Hackers Arrested in Buryatia.
ULAN UDE, January 21 (Itar-Tass) - A group of hackers has been arrested in
Buryatia by the department for the struggle against organised crime under
the Interior Ministry of the republic with the participation of officers
of the Federal Security Service.
The criminal group, which included a software specialist, tried to
penetrate into secret files of the Ulan Ude telephone exchange, which
contain, among other things, the classified addresses of officers of law
enforcement agencies. A telephone operator of the city information service
was also taking part in the hacking attempt.
The hackers planned to sell on the "black market" the information obtained
by illegal means. For the first time ever, criminal proceedings were
instituted in the republic under Article 272 of the Penal Code, i.e. on
charges of "unauthorized access to computer information."
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