http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_4178132,00.html By Karen Abbott Rocky Mountain News October 22, 2005 A computer hacker from Venezuela known as "RaFa" was sentenced Friday to the seven months he already has spent behind bars for breaking into a U.S. Air Force training computer in 2001. Colorado U.S. District Judge Walker Miller imposed the sentence on Rafael Nunez-Aponte, 26. Immigration officials are expected to deport him soon. Court documents said the man belonged to a computer hacking club called World-of-Hell. The group and Nunez-Aponte are featured in a chapter of the book, The Hacker Diaries: Confessions of Teenage Hackers, by Dan Verton [1]. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Nunez-Aponte in April when he arrived by plane in Miami to attend a conference. On June 11, 2001, personnel of the Defense Information Systems Agency in Denver discovered its Web-based server network was inoperable. When the servers were restarted, a new home page appeared with the message, "woh is Back . . . and kiss my a-- cause I just Owned yours!" and was signed "RaFa." The incident, which Nunez- Aponte admitted to earlier this year, cost the Defense Department $10,548. About $5,170 in traveler's checks seized when Nunez-Aponte was arrested will be applied to that cost. [1] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0072223642/c4iorg _________________________________________ InfoSec News v2.0 - Coming Soon! http://www.infosecnews.org
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