Forbes Details New York Times Hack Filed at 6:40 p.m. EST By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- The men who claim to have masterminded an attack on The New York Times' Web site in September said they did it because they were bored and couldn't agree on a video to watch. An interview in the Nov. 16 issue of Forbes magazine gives a free forum to the two men who claimed to have hacked the Times' site and replaced it with their own page, which insulted Times reporters and called for a comrade's freedom. The Times had no statement on the hack or the article. ``It wouldn't be prudent for us to comment on this as it's still under investigation,'' said Nancy Nielsen, Times spokeswoman. The two men, the alleged leaders of ``Hacking for Girlies,'' told Forbes they broke into the Times' site early the morning of Sept. 13. For three hours, Times' technicians played cat-and-mouse with the hackers before finally pulling the plug on the site. Visitors, surfing over to the www.nytimes.com, saw a ``page not available'' message. The site was down for almost nine hours. ``They (Times' technicians) seemed to have no idea how we got in -- or how to stop us,'' one of the men said. On the page, the men slammed Times reporter John Markoff, whose book ``Takedown'' detailed the crimes and capture of Kevin Mitnick, a hacker under indictment for 25 counts of computer and wire-fraud charges. Mitnick has become a martyr for many in the hacking community. The FBI is still investigating the hack. -o- Subscribe: mail majordomot_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Repent Security Incorporated [www.repsec.com]
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