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Friday, September 18, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Hacker taps NATO, Air Force computers; causes damage
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Federal investigators are wading through piles of printouts to assess damage caused by "Shadow Hawk," a teenage computer buff who used AT&T systems to tap into NATO and Air Force telephone networks, a prosecutor said yesterday.
Secret Service agents who raided the North Side home of the 17-year-old "hacker" confiscated three computers and software stolen through telephone company systems, said William J. Cook, an assistant U.S. attorney.
He would not speculate on any motive for the youth, who used "Shadow Hawk" as a code name, but said that some hackers like to see how far they can go with their machines.
A decision on whether to charge the youth will be made after the stolen materials are analyzed, Cook said.
after the store material is unpacked.
Agents have been working full-time since the Sept. 4
raid, printing out "the enormous quantity of material
stored in his computers." he said.
National security was not seriously jeopardized by the theft of material from an AT&T computer at NATO Maintenance and Supply Headquarters in Burlington, N.C. Cook said.
But he declined to comment on the nature of information taken from Robins Air Force Base in Georgia.
AT&T put the value of its stolen software, some of which is not yet on the market, at more than $1 million,
COOK SAID.
The youth also is suspected of revealing AT&T security devices over a computer network in Texas which is used as a kind of bulletin board for hackers, he said.
Cook said.
The network, called "Phreak Class-2600," exists only "to educate computer enthusiasts ... to penetrate industrial and government sector computer systems." Cook said.
Authorities said that they were led to the teen-age hacker partly through messages he left on the Texas network, where he bragged of having gained access to the AT&T computer files.
AT&T computer systems. Kathryn Clark, a spokeswoman for AT&T, said the company's security systems were triggered by Shadow Hawk's computer break-ins.
There was no physical break-in, Cook said. The computer programs and other information were obtained by tapping into systems by telephone, using another computer.
Shadow Hawk penetrated AT&T computers by disguising his own computer as a telephone company computer, he said.
"Once entering the system, he would have his computer talk to the phone company computers and cause the computer at some remote spot to transfer files to... Bell Labs in Naperville," a Chicago subsub. Cook said.
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