Random Access - Sunday, October 12, 1997FBI PRESS RELEASE (Feb 15, 1995)
At 1:30 a.m., today, February 15, 1995, agents of the FBI arrested KEVIN MITNICK, a well-known computer hacker and federal fugitive. The arrest occurred after an intensive two-weak electronic manhunt led law enforcement agents to MITNICK's apartment in Raleigh, North Carolina.
MITNICK, 31, was convicted by Federal authorities in 1988 in Los Angeles for stealing computer programs and breaking into corporate networks.
He received a one-year sentence in that case, and a Federal warrant was issued following MITNICK's violation of probation.
In this latest incident, MITNICK is alleged to have electronically attacked numerous corporate and communications carriers located in California, Colorado, and North Carolina where he caused significant damage and stole proprietary information. One of the attacked sites was the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), and Tsutomu Shimomura, a system administrator at SDSC, provided significant assistance to law enforcement personnel during the investigation. MITNICK is also under investigation by state law enforcement authorities in Seattle for separate activities there.
As is typical in such interstate computer cases, may FBI offices and United States Attorneys' Offices have carefully coordinated their efforts. These offices include the FBI's Nation al Computer Crime Squad at the Washington Metropolitan Field Office, as well as FBI and United States Attorneys' Offices in the Eastern District of North Carolina (Raleigh), the Central District of North Carolina (Greensboro), the Southern District of California (San Diego), the Central District of California (Los Angeles), the Northern District of California (San Francisco), and the District of Colorado. Legal and technical assistance is also being provided by the Criminal Division's Computer Crime Unit in Washington, D. C.
On February 15, 1995, a complaint was filed in U. S. District Court, Raleigh, N. C., charging KEVIN MITNICK with violation of 18 U. S. Code, Section 1029 (Fraud and Related Activity in Connection With Access Devices) in violation Title 18, Section 1038 (Fraud and Related Activities in Connection with Computers).
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