When someone cracked Slip.net's computer system, altered customer accounts and deleted important databases, the Internet service provider didn't need to look far to find the attacker. It wasn't a criminal outfit seeking credit card numbers, and it wasn't a scrawny whiz . . .
When someone cracked Slip.net's computer system, altered customer accounts and deleted important databases, the Internet service provider didn't need to look far to find the attacker. It wasn't a criminal outfit seeking credit card numbers, and it wasn't a scrawny whiz kid hacking away for a challenge in his dark bedroom. It was Nicholas Middleton, a former computer administrator for Slip.net, who had been unhappy at the San Francisco company and recently quit. Middleton fought the resulting criminal charges on a legal technicality but lost and got three years' probation.

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