E-Mail:

T-Mobile Sidekick Hacker Pleads Guilty

Those of you who recall Aunty telling you about the T-Mobile Sidekick hacker will be interested to know that not only has he been apprehended, but he has pleaded guilty.

Twenty-one year old Nicholas Lee Jacobsen, an engineer now living in Oregon, formerly of Orange County, California, pleaded guilty to charges which could land him in federal prison for up to five years, and attach fines of as much as $250,000.

What remains a mystery is not so much how he hacked in to the T-Mobile system, but how after doing so he was able to have continuous access for seven months, compromising the names and social security numbers of… [Continued...]

What Do You Think?

 

Want to Start a Blog Here for Free?

Are you an expert in one subject or another? If your goal is to help others and dispense hard-earned information back to the community, stake a claim on your very own Lockergnome blog today! You can write about anything - no matter the topic. Sign-up to start blogging!

60 queries / 0.326 seconds.