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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SEPTEMBER 9, 2003 MARVIN SMILON, HERBERT HADAD, MICHAEL KULSTAD PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE (212) 637-2600 FBI MARK F, MENDELSOHN JOSEPH A. VALIQUETTE (212) -637-2487 JAMES M. MARGOLIN (212) 384-2715, 2720 U.S. CHARGES HACKER WITH ILLEGALLY ACCESSING NEW YORK TIMES COMPUTER NETWORK JAMES B. COMEY, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and PASQUALE D’AMURO, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that ADRIAN LAMO was charged in Manhattan federal court with hacking into the internal computer network of the New York Times. LAMO surrendered today to federal authorities in Sacramento, California. According to a two-count criminal Complaint unsealed today in Manhattan federal court, on February 26, 2002, LAMO hacked into the New York Times’ internal computer network and accessed a database containing personal information {including home telephone numbers and Social Security numbers) 1 FBI(19-cv-1495)-2014