[iwar] [fc:Hackers.nabbed.by.Nvidia]

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Date: 2002-01-02 07:10:58

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Hackers nabbed by Nvidia

San Jose Business Central, 1/2/2002
<a href="http://sanjose.bcentral.com/sanjose/stories/2001/12/31/daily7.html">http://sanjose.bcentral.com/sanjose/stories/2001/12/31/daily7.html>

Attorneys hired by San Jose software maker Nvidia Corp. say they tracked
down and nabbed two young men in the Netherlands who had hacked into
Nvidia's internal computer system. It is believed to be one of the first
private enforcement actions against cross-border computer hacking
detrimental to a publicly traded U.S. company, says the international
law firm Coudert Brothers LLP. 
"The young men hacked into Nvidia's internal communications network and
were fraudulently impersonating Nvidia and Microsoft employees in
e-mails to obtain proprietary intellectual property. Nvidia's
information technology experts traced the e-mails back to their source
in the Netherlands and, with the help of Dutch counsel, we were able to
quickly obtain a seizure order and confiscate their personal computers
as evidence," says Robert Christopher, managing partner for the Northern
California offices of Coudert Brothers, who headed Nvidia's legal team. 
"They did not seem to be motivated by financial gain or any interest in
harming the company," says Mr. Christopher. "Although they admitted the
information had been obtained illegally, they argued that they were
providing a `public service' to other computer enthusiasts who read
their online newsletter." 
The teenager who broke into Nvidia's network was living at home and
operating the Web site on personal computers routed through a local
server service, according to Mr. Christopher. 
"His parents were shocked when the authorities showed up at the door,"
Mr. Christopher says. 
The Dutch hackers cooperated fully and signed an agreement "promising
never again to engage in these kinds of activities," he says. The
hackers' identities were not revealed.

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