October 24, 2007

$500,000 Bail for hacker

A nineteen year old hacker is on a massive $500,000 bail after he hacked into the Orange County police department in California and sent a heavily armed SWAT team to an address of a family who were completely aware of what was about to happen!

As the SWAT team began to make their move, the house holder believed that he was about to be robbed and so ran out brandishing a kitchen knife, luckily for him officers from the SWAT team were able to disarmed him before any serious consequences occurred.

The Hacker, Randall Ellis of Mulkiteo, Washington, has been brought down to Orange County where he was charged.

Apparently the 911 services are notorious for being hacked, but it would seem that there is going to an example set here.

Source [ABC News]