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Hacker Burrows Deep Into T-Mobile.(Nicholas Jacobson, T-Mobile USA, case)

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| January 26, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2004 Access Intelligence, LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Yet another 21-year-old hacker has run rings around some of the best computer security minds in the business, in this case demonstrating how vulnerable the infant mobile payments business can be.

According to court papers filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Nicholas Jacobson had been roaming at will for more than a year in the computer system belonging to wireless carrier T-Mobile USA, only to be swept up in the globe-spanning Shadowcrew bust in October 2004 (see EPW, Nov. 9, 2004).

According to those papers, Jacobson was monitoring the U.S. Secret Service's e-mail, he got hold of customer passwords and Social Security numbers, and he even managed to…

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