Entire Site Advisories Calendar Columnists Guests Infocus Links Mailing lists (all) - BUGTRAQ - FOCUS-IDS - FOCUS-IH - FOCUS-LINUX - FOCUS-MS - FOCUS-SUN - FOCUS-VIRUS - FORENSICS - INCIDENTS - PEN-TEST - SEC JOBS - SEC SHELL - SF NEWS - VULN-DEV News Products Tools Vulns Email article Printable version SECURITYFOCUS NEWS Wireless hacking bust in Michigan By Kevin Poulsen SecurityFocus Nov 12 2003 4:35PM In a rare wireless hacking prosecution, federal officials this week accused two Michigan men of repeatedly cracking the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores' nationwide network from a 1995 Pontiac Grand Prix parked outside a suburban Detroit store. Paul Timmins, 22, and Adam Botbyl, 20, were charged Monday with penetrating and intentionally damaging a Lowe's system in violation of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. According to an affidavit filed by FBI agent Denise Stemen, intruders first hopped onto the wi-fi network at the Lowe's store in Southfield, Michigan on October 25th, at 11:20 p.m, and used the store's network to access the company's central data center at Lowe's North Carolina headquarters. They returned at least six times over the following two weeks and used the network to access store networks at seven other Lowe's locations around the country, in Kansas, North Carolina, Kentucky, South Dakota, Florida, and two stores in California. The intruders deployed unspecified hacking software at some of the stores, in one case crashing the point of sale terminals at a Lowe's in Long Beach, California, according to the affidavit. | |
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