[Am-info] Famous hacker Kevin Mitnick gets hacked

Mitch Stone mitch@accidentalexpert.com
Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:03:02 -0800


Will this prove to be a setback for Mitnick's new career as a computer 
security guru?

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/02/11/hacker.hacked.ap/index.html

Famous hacker Kevin Mitnick gets hacked

Tuesday, February 11, 2003 Posted:  10:02 AM EST (1502 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The world's best-known computer hacker suffered the 
indignity of having someone break into his new security consulting 
company's Web site. But Kevin Mitnick shrugged it off as "quite 
amusing," not serious enough for him to call the FBI.

[...]

Mitnick said Monday that the hackers apparently exploited separate 
flaws in Internet server software from Microsoft Corp. The person 
responsible for the company's Web site failed to apply the repairing 
patches available from Microsoft, Mitnick said.