HACKERS: British hacker says he got Bill Gates' credit card details
Updated Sun 3/26/2000 06:47 EST
By Agence France-Presse London--Mar 26--A British youth arrested after an international enquiry into computer hacking told the Sunday Telegraph he had been able to get details of thousands of credit cards, including that of Microsoft chief Bill Gates. The hacker claims he wanted to prove how insecure Internet sites are. * * * Welsh police, who cooperated with US and Canadian colleagues in the investigation, declined to confirm the news report which quoted Raphael Gray, 18, who was detained Thursday for 12 hours and then released on police bail. Gray and an unnamed friend, also 18, were questioned in connection with a suspected two million sterling fraud involving web sites in the United States, Canada, Japan, Thailand and Britain. Gray, who said his friend was not involved, sent details of the credit cards, including that of Gates, to a subsidiary of the US television network NBC. "I just wanted to prove how insecure these sites are," Gray told the Sunday Telegraph. "I have done the honest thing but I have been ignored. That's why I posted the information on the Internet."
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