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Chat room logs and information on the hard drive of a
computer on the University of California at Santa Barbara helped to lead
to the arrest of a teenage Canadian computer hacker suspect known as
Mafiaboy who is alleged to have been behind the CNN denial of service
attack of February 8.
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Source: New York Times (NYT)
Author: MATT RICHTEL
Title: Canada Arrests 15-Year-Old in Web Attack
Source Date: April 20, 2000
Resource Type: News Article
Description/Keywords: Canada, Adolescent, Computer Hacker, Hacker
Attacks, Portal Websites, Arrest
URL: Listed Below Article Summary
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April 20, 2000
Canada Arrests 15-Year-Old in Web
Attack
By MATT RICHTEL
Canadian law enforcement officials said Wednesday that they had
arrested a Montreal high school student in one of the computer attacks
that crippled some of the Internet's biggest sites in February, exposing
deep vulnerabilities in the fledgling world of electronic commerce.
The 15-year-old suspect, whom the authorities identified only by the
online nickname Mafiaboy, was accused of conducting an attack against
Cable News Network's Web site. He is the first to face charges in the
onslaught that hindered access to the World Wide Web sites of Yahoo, eBay
and E*Trade, among others, and forced hundreds of other big-name sites to
shore up their defenses against an invisible and far-flung threat.
The Canadian suspect was not charged in those
other attacks, however, and authorities in
Canada and the United States said their
investigations were continuing. Some computer
security experts reiterated their belief yesterday
that the attacks had several authors acting
independently.
The Montreal youth was charged with two
counts of criminal mischief for an attack on Feb.
8 against CNN.com, which said it was
"seriously affected" for two hours. As a minor,
he faces up to two years of detention if
convicted and a fine of $1,000. American
officials said they were studying whether
charges might also be brought in the United
States.
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