Friday, 10. January 2003
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Hackers Invade Texas A&M Phone System
Hackers in Saudi Arabia infiltrated Texas A&M's phone system, using it as a conduit to make free collect calls, officials said.
Phone carriers alerted the school to the suspicious activity Thursday, said Walt Magnussen, A&M's associate director of telecommunications. The university sent an emergency e-mail to employees about the attack that urged them to change their mailbox passwords.
The fraud affected five voice mailboxes among the university's 25,000 phone lines. The number or cost of the unauthorized calls wasn't immediately known, The Eagle reported Friday.
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