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Peninsula Hackers Busted
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Lunatic Labs News & Archieve Deptment
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Friday, July 26, 1985
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Millbrae police arrest alleged teen 'hackers'
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by John Curry - Times Staff Writer
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MILLBRAE -- A telephoned bomb threat to the White House early this summer led to
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the arrest Wednesday (7224) of two teen-age "computer hackers" in Millbrae,
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police report.
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The youths, 17 and 14, allegedly had hacked into access lines by computer and
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made phone calls all over the world. So far, the tab to Pacific Bell and MCI is
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over $10,000, police Sgt. Ron Caine said.
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The investigation began with the hacked phone call to the White House,
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leading federal authorities there to ask American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T)
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to back-trace the call. When it was determined where the call came from, the
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lines were monitored and evidence of phone fraud came out, Caine said.
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"They apparently have some very sophisticated equipment in Washington
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and they can do things like that," Caine observed.
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The White House call was traced to a teleconference system that included as
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many as 59 illegal users, investigators reported.
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"They were just shocked that we had any knowledge of it," Detective Ray
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Celeste added. "The parents, of course, did not have any idea what their kids
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were doing."
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Police seized the youths' computers, an illegal hacking program and a
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homemade "blue box" that can simulate the tones made by puch-button telephone
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users, Celeste said.
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The object was to hack into someone's access code by computer, with the calls
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then to be billed to that someone else's number, Caine said. The 1.5 month
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investigation by federal and AT&T officials resulted in a 24-page search
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warrant documenting every call the boys allegedly had made up to that point, he
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added. The total could increase because there may have been other calls made
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this week since the search warrant was prepared, Caine went on.
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The hacking program was used to try up to 3,000 phone numbers and access codes
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per day to see what numbers could be abused, Celeste said.
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The boys were arrested at their homes and released back to their parents
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pending juvenile court action, Caine said. They could face charges of
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computer crime and telephone fraud, the officers said. Caine noted also that the
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parents could be held liable for the costs of the phone calls.
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This was not the Peninsula's first experience with alleged high-school
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hackers. In December 1984, police followed up on a tip that three
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Burlingame youths had invaded the GTE Sprint computer system via a "blue box"
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to use it without paying toll charges. The trio's phone lines were monitored
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for two weeks while they ran up over $500 worth of calls to the East Coast.
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