Top Korean Hacker Arrested
Date: October 15, 2004Source: Digital Chosunilbo
A man thought to be one of the most flagrant hackers in Korea has been apprehended. The Cyber Terror Response Center (CTRC) of the National Police Agency on Monday arrested a 30-year-old man identified as Lee, a former employee of an information security company, on suspicion of hacking into 1,152 public and private computer systems since March, 2003. The number represents the most successful hacking attempts by an individual in this country.
According to the CTRC, Lee left the security company in late 2002 and lost himself in computer hacking and collecting pornography. Later, he sent a hacking program embedded in a photograph to a woman he had met online -- the hacking program was activated once the picture was opened on her computer. Lee is also charged with hacking 260,000 screen output data and keyboard input data at universities, public organizations and businesses.
Police say that Lee was skilled enough to break into his university computer network and forge school records in 2001. Police add that he may have sold information and that they are currently investigating that possibility. Universities that were targets of his hacking include well-known institutions like Seoul National University, Pohang University of Science and Technology and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
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