Forwarded From: William Knowles <erehwon@kizmiaz.dis.org>
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) [11.6.98] - Police have arrested a teenage boy who
hacked through all the security features of South African
telecommunications company Telkom's computer system but apparently did no
damage, the company said on Thursday.
A senior police source said earlier the boy, from the Rondebosch suburb of
Cape Town, had been in a position to move vast amounts of money around the
system but had seemingly been content to browse benignly.
Telkom told Reuters its investigators had found the footprints of the
15-year-old hacker around the system some weeks ago and had slowly tracked
him down, allowing police to swoop on Wednesday morning.
``At no time have any of our primary services to our customers been
compromised,'' Segar Annamalai, Telkom's managing executive of information
technology said.
The company said another, older hacker had also been questioned.
``Based on current information, Telkom is not aware of any information on
the system having been manipulated,'' the company said.
``However, Telkom and its software supplier on the system, together with
the South African police's computer investigation team are still
monitoring the situation closely,'' it added.
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Received on Sat Nov 7 13:21:01 1998