A hacker broke into a wireless carrier’s network over at least seven months and read e-mails and personal computer files of hundreds of customers, including the Secret Service agent investigating the hacker, the government said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The hacker obtained an internal Secret Service memorandum and part of a mutual assistance legal treaty from Russia. The documents contained “highly sensitive information pertaining to ongoing … criminal cases,” according to court records.<\/p>\n
The break-in targeted the network for Bellevue, Washington-based T-Mobile USA, which has 16.3 million customers in the United States. It was discovered during a broad Secret Service investigation, “Operation Firewall,” which targeted underground hacker organizations known as Shadowcrew, Carderplanet and Darkprofits.<\/p>\n
Nicolas Lee Jacobsen, 21, of Santa Ana, California, a computer engineer, has been charged with the break-in in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. Investigators said they traced the hacker’s online activities to a hotel in Williamsport, New York, where Jacobsen was staying.<\/p>\n
Jacobsen, who was arrested in October in California, has been released on a $25,000 bond posted by his uncle, who was ordered to keep his own personal computer locked up so Jacobsen couldn’t use it.<\/p>\n
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