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Thought the following might be of interest. The question is how many people
hostile to the best interest of Western Europe, and U.S. are working on
ways to manipulate the data (currency, stocks, commodities) to possibly
cause a financial panic. The implication here is that they are American
teenagers - perhaps they are not.
Happy trading,
John
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Hackers hit Nasdaq, Amex sites
Copyright © 1999 Nando Media
Copyright © 1999 Associated Press
Market Indices | Dow Jones Industrials | Internet Stocks | Most Active |
Gainers | Losers | Company Sleuth WASHINGTON (September 15, 1999 11:42 a.m.
EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Computer hackers early Wednesday
vandalized the Web sites for Nasdaq and the American Stock Exchange in a
bold electronic affront to the world's financial markets.
A group calling itself "United Loan Gunmen," infiltrated the computer
running the Web sites for Nasdaq and Amex just after midnight.
It was extraordinarily unlikely the hackers would have been able to
manipulate any financial data within the exchanges. Nasdaq recently
acquired the American Stock Exchange.
A spokesman for the exchanges was not available immediately for comment.
The hacker group left a taunting message saying it intended to "make stocks
rise drastically, thus making all investors happy, hopefully ending with
the investors putting bumper stickers on their Mercedez' that say 'Thanks
ULG!'"
"Meanwhile, ULG members go back to flipping burgers at McDonalds."
It also claimed to have briefly created for itself an e-mail account on
Nasdaq's computer system, suggesting a broad breach in the system's security.
The group also had claimed responsibility earlier this week for the
defacement of the Internet site for Matt Drudge, the Internet gossip
columnist, and electronic attacks against C-SPAN last week and against ABC
just weeks ago.
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