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Irish ISP Data Breach: 17-Year-Old Arrested Over Security Incident

Calendar Aug 28, 2000 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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A 17-year-old has been questioned by Irish police after a security breach forced the country's leading Internet service provider to change the passwords of 30,000 of its 240,000 customers, a spokesman said on Monday. The teenager was arrested in Wicklow, . . . A 17-year-old has been questioned by Irish police after a security breach forced the country's leading Internet service provider to change the passwords of 30,000 of its 240,000 customers, a spokesman said on Monday. The teenager was arrested in Wicklow, south of Dublin, and was questioned under the Criminal Justice Act by the Garda (police) National Bureau of Fraud Investigation for offences involving damage to computer data.

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