pauls@crdgw1.ge.com (Paul Schmidt) (10/07/90)
sixhub!kk4fs!root@crdgw1.ge.com (Paul Schmidt -) writes: > From the JOHNSON CITY PRESS, Wednesday, October 3, 1990 > HACKER ALTERING RECORDED PHONE MESSAGES We now have an update on this: From the JOHNSON CITY PRESS, Saturday, October 6, 1990 PHONE TAMPERING CHARGES FOLLOW ARREST OF AREA MAN From staff reports KINGSPORT, TN - A city man was arrested Friday for allegedly tampering with United Telephone System voice mail boxes. Christopher Stacy Agett, 20, 2016 Woodbine St., was charged with 59 felony counts of interfering with telephone lines and appliances for allegedly replacing voice mail messages with sexually explicit recordings taken from telephone sex lines. In a written statement obtained by UTS security officials, Agett said he dialed into company's voice mail message center and found boxes that were not protected by a code number, or that had a code that was easy to break, such as four sequential numbers. As a result of the incident, UTS officials said in a news release they are taking steps to make the message system more secure. Officials say they won't elaborate on the security procedures "for fear that someone else will comprimise our system." Agett was released on $3,000 bond from Kingsport City Jail Friday afternoon. He will be arraigned Monday morning in Sullivan County Sessions Court.