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Individual Arrested for Hacking into Messenger Conversations

Feb 18, 2004 10:18AM PST

Korean police have arrested a man aged 26, identified only by his surname Kim, for hacking into Instant Messenger (IM) conversations between five fellow employees and reporting the conversations to his managers. Police say Kim hacked into the IM conversations sixty times in December using the Radmin program he downloaded from the Internet. One employee, identified as Mr. Park, said he suspected that company executives knew details of his conversations, a suspicion confirmed when he saw his Messenger screen open on Mr. Kim's computer. Mr. Kim allegedly told executives about the conversations to get the others fired. Mr. Kim faces up to five years imprisonment or a fine of 50 million won ($43,000).

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200402/200402180019.html

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