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Subject:    [ISN] Thailand unable to trace hacker
From:       mea culpa <jericho () dimensional ! com>
Date:       1999-01-28 20:36:05
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Posted at 7:30 p.m. PST Wednesday, January 27, 1999 
Thailand unable to trace hacker
Reuters 

BANGKOK -- The United States sought Thai help via Interpol to try to trace
a hacker who attempted to break into U.S. military computers from a public
Internet terminal at December's Asian Games, police said on Thursday. 

Police Colonel Wichien Samarnphong, deputy commander of the crime
suppression division, said the hacker tried unsuccessfully to get into
several U.S. military sites from the terminal at the Games site on the
outskirts of Bangkok. 

Police, U.S. embassy officials and computer experts found the computer the
hacker had used but were unable to track him down, he said. 

The Nation newspaper said that one of the facilities the hacker tried to
break into was a military air base in Texas which it did not identify by
name. 

The paper said staff at the base had detected a hacking attempt and
managed to thwart it. 

A spokesman for the U.S. embassy said he was unable to comment on the
reports and said inquiries would be dealt with by the U.S. Defense
Department. 

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