Adrian Lamo, then 20 years old, altered a Reuters story in 2001 by adding a false quote that was ascribed to former Attorney General John Ashcroft using an unprotected content management system at Yahoo. Lamo frequently breached computer systems before alerting the media and his victims. He occasionally assisted in the clean-up to increase their security. But as Wired notes, Lamo went too far in 2002 when he hacked The New York Times intranet, listed himself as an expert source, and started researching well-known public people. Because Lamo tended to travel the streets with little more than a bag and frequently had no set location, he acquired the nickname “The Homeless Hacker.”
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