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To: Tim Luke who wrote (47584)	5/27/1998 5:55:00 PM
From: Darren	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

Let me guess. The CEO is some guy named Debartolo and he's gotta go spend some time at Club Fed? <g>

To: Tim Luke who wrote (47584)	5/27/1998 6:57:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

***OT** Telcos seek Detroit voice-mail hacker United Press International - May 27, 1998 18:35 %FINANCIAL %US %VOICEHACK V%UPI P%UPI DETROIT, May 27 (UPI) - Investigators for Ameritech and Lucent Technologies are trying to track down a new type of hacker who managed to invade the phone company's voice-mailbox system in the Detroit area. Ameritech spokeswoman Karen Sanborn says today the hacker illegally deposited messages in 3,000 to 5,000 residential and business voice mailboxes by using Ameritech's ''broadcast message'' feature. Some mailboxes received what Sanborn calls an ''offensive'' message from a male voice. Others got a request for personal information, including Social Security numbers, from a person identifying himself as an Ameritech worker. The phone companies won't say how the hacker broke into the broadcasting system. Sanborn says Ameritech occasionally uses the broadcast mode to send messages about area code changes or other general information to large numbers of customers. Some phone company customers also use the system. Sanborn says the voice-mail break-in Tuesday was quickly detected, and most messages were erased before being retrieved by affected phone customers. The company has temporarily disabled the broadcast feature while technicians try to prevent future hacking. Sanborn says the incident was unrelated to the illegal break-in of a McDonald's restaurant's phone message system last week in the Detroit area. In that case, someone placed an obscene message about Beanie Babies on the restaurant's answering machine, shocking callers.