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<A HREF="http://www.msnbc.com/news/273819.asp">FBI raids hackers, suffers
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FBI raids hackers, suffers retaliation
Group members had been subjected to search,
PC confiscation — later, hackers take down FBI’s Web siteBy Brock Meeks,
Alan Boyle and Bob Sullivan
MSNBC May 26 — A skirmish between the FBI and a well-known hacker
group seemingly erupted Wednesday. Not long after federal agents served
search warrants on members of hacker group Global Hell (gH), probably in
connection with recent attacks on U.S. government computers, the FBI’s
own Web site was attacked and is currently unreachable.
White House Web site shut down
Weigh in on the attack on the FBI site
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The FBI told MH they would be in contact this Friday to follow up; in
the meantime, they have his computer, which belongs to his parents.
ROLANDO MOSS, SPOKESMAN for the FBI office in Houston, confirmed to
MSNBC on Wednesday night that agents are investigating “allegations of
computer intrusions” involving a hacker who goes by the handle
“mosthated.” Mosthated told MSNBC he was the founding member of gH, and
that at least eight other hackers around the country had been searched
in the crackdown.
Last week, gH member Eric Burns (who also goes by the name Zyklon),
was arrested in connection with three separate attacks on U.S.
government computers, including systems at the U.S. Information Agency.
Mosthated told MSNBC he was raided by agents at about 6 a.m. Central
time Wednesday in what he described as a “a huge hacker crackdown.” Four
other Houston area hackers, three in California and one in Seattle also
received FBI visits. None was arrested, but all had computer equipment
confiscated, he said.
White House Web site shut down
Late Wednesday, www.fbi.gov stopped working. According to the Web
site www.antionline.com, an individual calling himself Israeli Ghost was
taking credit for the attack on the FBI’s site.
“FBI WILL NOT {profanity deleted} WITH MY FRIENDS FROM GLOBAL HELL,”
the hacker allegedly wrote in an e-mail to Antionline.
“I can confirm that the FBI in Houston is investigating allegations
of computer intrusions,” Moss said. “it is an ongoing investigation.” A
spokesman at the Seattle FBI office who declined to be identified
refused to comment, other than to say “Right now there are still things
that need to be decided.”
Other members of the hacking community, contacted by MSNBC, said the
FBI site was hit by what’s called a denial of service (DOS) attack. In
such an attack, the host computer is not actually controlled by an
outsider; rather, outsiders bombard a Web site with so many simultaneous
hits that it becomes overwhelmed and can no longer function.
Mosthated said he didn’t know who was responsible for the DOS
attack. The FBI did ask some cursory questions about the recent White
House Web site hack, showing mosthated printouts of Web stories done by
MSNBC and CNN, he said. “But they didn’t really push those questions,”
mosthated said.
The apparent response to the hacker crackdown has spread through the
digital underground and taken on a life of its own, a spontaneous act of
retaliation that wasn’t asked for.
“The retaliation has to stop,” mosthated said. “All this ... needs
to stop. Have you seen all the Web pages that have been changed in the
last hour? Someone told me that there’s been more than a hundred,” he
said.
“This [retaliation] is just going to look worse on the people that
did get raided,” said the 18-year-old mosthated, who says he stopped
hacking last summer to set up his own security firm.
This impromptu show of support is going to backfire, he told MSNBC.
“Everything that gH has done is going to be put on my shoulders,” owing
to his position as the group’s founder.
The FBI agents who executed a search warrant on mosthated said they
were looking for evidence related to “illegal telecom activity,” he
said, in particular illegally set-up conference calls. “The FBI told me
some company lost $250,000 because of the illegal conference calling
activity,” he said.
Mosthated said the FBI told him they would be in contact this Friday
to follow up; in the meantime, they have his computer, which belongs to
his parents, he said. “They are really mad .… The computer had all their
financial information and stuff on it,” he said.
Mosthated’s mother confirmed to MSNBC that her computer had been
confiscated by the FBI, and said “And I’m really mad.”
Word that “something big was in the works” had filtered out as early
as last week, according to Ken Deutsch, a web-master for Issue Dynamics,
Inc. IDI was one of the companies named in the indictment of Burns.
Deutsch, who worked closely with the FBI in the Burns case, told
MSNBC in an interview last week that, “the FBI told me that ‘something
big was about to go down’ in relation to other hacking activity, but
they didn’t give me details.”
MSNBC© 1999
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