Nicolas Jacobsen

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Nicholas Jacobsen is a hacker who had illegal access to the private information of T-Mobile customers for at least a year. [1] [2] He used an SQL injection attack to make T-Mobile's website dump its customer database. [3] He was arrested after an investigation by the United States Secret Service in October 2004 and pleaded guilty at trial as part of a plea agreement. [4] [5] [6]

Jacobsen's cyber targets were reported to include Paris Hilton's T-Mobile Sidekick II, [7] in addition to exposing documents emailed to an agent by the Secret Service. [8]

References

  1. ↑ Michael Daly (23 February 2005). "World Wild Web Of Paris Hacker". New York Daily News. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  2. ↑ Kevin Poulsen (11 January 2005). "Hacker penetrates T-Mobile systems". SecurityFocus. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  3. ↑ Roberts, Paul (March 1, 2005). "Hilton may be victim of T-Mobile Web holes". InfoWorld. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
  4. ↑ Kevin Poulsen (28 February 2005). "Known Hole Aided T-Mobile Breach". Wired. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  5. ↑ Kevin Poulsen (16 February 2005). "T-Mobile hacker pleads guilty". SecurityFocus. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  6. ↑ "Computer Hacker Who Victimized T-Mobile Pleads Guilty in Los Angeles Federal Court (February 15, 2005)". www.justice.gov. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
  7. ↑ Schell, Bernadette H. (2006). Webster's new world hacker dictionary. Clemens Martin. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley Pub. ISBN   0-470-04752-6. OCLC   67840235.
  8. ↑ Srivastava, Dr. Sandeep; Goyal, Er. Meera; Porwal, Shalu (2021). E-Commerce. SBPD Publications. p. 322.
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