Author: JT Smith
NandoTimes: “When someone broke into Slip.net’s computer system, altered customer
accounts and deleted crucial databases, the Internet service provider didn’t have to look far to find the attacker.
accounts and deleted crucial databases, the Internet service provider didn’t have to look far to find the attacker.
It wasn’t a criminal outfit seeking credit card numbers, and it wasn’t a scrawny whiz kid hacking away for a challenge in his dark
bedroom.
It was Nicholas Middleton, a former computer administrator for Slip.net, who had been unhappy at the San Francisco company and
recently quit. Middleton fought the resulting criminal charges on a legal technicality but lost and got three years’ probation.”
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