Information Security News: Gardai detain suspect (17) in hacker hunt

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http://www.independent.ie/2000/240/d01c.shtml

By TOM BRADY, Security Editor
28-August-2000

A TEENAGER was last night arrested and questioned about about a
security breach of Eircom's internet system earlier this month.

The breach, the first major known case of a security breach in
Ireland, occurred after a hacker broke into Eircom's internet system
and gained access to 30,000 of its accounts, posing serious
confidentiality and privacy questions for the service providers.

The Irish Independent has learned the arrest was made after gardai
from the computer crime unit, part of the Garda National Bureau of
Fraud Investigation, carried out a raid on a house in Co Wicklow.

A 17-year-old was taken to Wicklow town Garda Station, where he was
detained under the Criminal Damage Act for alleged offences of damage
to computer data.

The youth was released shortly after 9pm last night and a file is
prepared for the DPP. The security breach on August 17 last caused
serious difficulties for Eircom users who's passwords had to be
changed by the company for security reasons.

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