Thursday, August 31, 2006

T-Mobile network hacker sentenced

A man arrested in 2005 for hacking into the computers of the US arm of mobile company T-mobile <A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5294412.stm">has been sentenced.</A> Nicholas Lee Jacobsen, 23, was given one year home detention and ordered to pay $10,000 to the mobile firm. In 2004 he accessed personal records of hundreds of T-Mobile customers, including a Secret Service agent. Although Jacobsen was able to read some sensitive data used by Special Agent Peter Cavicchia no investigations were compromised, the Secret Service said.

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