Reinvention in progress
CSO, May, 2006 by Scott Berinato
Paris Hilton is the pink elephant in the room. For it was data from her wireless device that was hacked, and her wireless device was a T-Mobile Sidekick. A clever 21-year-old named Nicolas Jacobsen hacked the data. In fact, he had the run of T-Mobile's servers on and off for more than a year. He took what he wanted from any of T-Mobile's 16 million accounts, including Social Security numbers, account passwords and e-mails. (News of the Hilton hack garnered more attention than these breaches, dwarfing the fact that Jacobsen had also hacked the Sidekick of a Secret Service agent and published excerpts of sensitive Secret Service e-mails and documents.)
Jacobsen was caught in October 2004 and pled guilty four months later. (He was sentenced two months after that but the judge...
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