11-12-2003 Two Young Men Hack Lowes using Laptop Wi-Fi in parking Lot
Two young men sitting in a car in the parking lot of a Lowe's home improvement store in Southfield repeatedly hacked into the company's national computer network over the past two weeks, gaining access to credit card numbers and other information, federal prosecutors said Monday.
They may have been engaged in the recent hacker craze known as "wardriving" -- cruising around with a specially equipped laptop and an antenna searching for unsecured wireless networks hooked to the Internet.
The men are charged with causing damage to a protected computer system, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, upon conviction. Reynolds told Morgan that the men, who were arrested on a criminal complaint, are likely to be indicted within a few weeks in Michigan or Charlotte, N.C.
"Wardriving" is named after the old hacker practice called wardialing, the stunt that actor Matthew Broderick made famous in the 1983 film "WarGames." Broderick's character hacked into a military computer and nearly triggered a nuclear war with Russia.
Two young men sitting in a car in the parking lot of a Lowe's home improvement store in Southfield repeatedly hacked into the company's national computer network over the past two weeks, gaining access to credit card numbers and other information, federal prosecutors said Monday.
They may have been engaged in the recent hacker craze known as "wardriving" -- cruising around with a specially equipped laptop and an antenna searching for unsecured wireless networks hooked to the Internet.
The men are charged with causing damage to a protected computer system, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, upon conviction. Reynolds told Morgan that the men, who were arrested on a criminal complaint, are likely to be indicted within a few weeks in Michigan or Charlotte, N.C.
"Wardriving" is named after the old hacker practice called wardialing, the stunt that actor Matthew Broderick made famous in the 1983 film "WarGames." Broderick's character hacked into a military computer and nearly triggered a nuclear war with Russia.
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