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= passing mention of NYTCO @ egative = industry article =neutral - LEXIS®-NEXIS® View Printable i) e significant mention ofNYTCO | = positive Copyright 2002 Agence France Presse Agence France Presse February 27, 2002 Wednesday SECTION: Financial Pages BLL INF NED LENGTH: 235 words b6é -1 bic -1 HEADLINE: Hacker breaks into New York Times DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 26 BODY: A hacker is openly bragging he broke into a sensitive database at The New York Times, accessing sensitive information about employees and sources used by the prestigious newspaper. In an article on the California-based SecurityFocus website, Adrian Lamo, a 21-year-old computer security consultant detailed how he used IP addresses to find a database containing employee social security numbers and other data. Using this information, he was then able to find a password that allowed him to access the paper's internal servers where he found contact information on sources and contacts used by the newspaper. Servers store and pass along data on a computer network. "The server practically approached me," Lamo said in his critique of the newspaper's computer network. Lamo boasted that he had accessed the home phone numbers and other records of the paper's roster of contributors to its opinion pages, including the personal information of Hollywood stars Warren Beatty and Robert Redford, former UN weapons inspector Richard Butler, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh and former president Jimmy Carter. "We did get notified yesterday that there had been a security breach of our corporate security site," said Christine Mohan, a New York Times spokeswoman. "We identified the security flaw and addressed it." Mohan said the newspaper is continuing to investigate the breach. LOAD-DATE: February 27,2002 http://vww.nexis.com/research/search/submitViewTagged . 2/28/02 FBI(19-cv-1495)-1627