Forwarded From: William Knowles <erehwonat_private> CAPE TOWN (Reuters) [11.6.98] - Police have arrested a teenage boy who hacked through all the security features of South African telecommunications company Telkom's computer system but apparently did no damage, the company said on Thursday. A senior police source said earlier the boy, from the Rondebosch suburb of Cape Town, had been in a position to move vast amounts of money around the system but had seemingly been content to browse benignly. Telkom told Reuters its investigators had found the footprints of the 15-year-old hacker around the system some weeks ago and had slowly tracked him down, allowing police to swoop on Wednesday morning. ``At no time have any of our primary services to our customers been compromised,'' Segar Annamalai, Telkom's managing executive of information technology said. The company said another, older hacker had also been questioned. ``Based on current information, Telkom is not aware of any information on the system having been manipulated,'' the company said. ``However, Telkom and its software supplier on the system, together with the South African police's computer investigation team are still monitoring the situation closely,'' it added. -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Repent Security Incorporated [www.repsec.com]
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