![]() ![]() Reformed, but still possessed of the curiosity that contributed to his hacking when he was younger, he became a journalist. sentence ever given for hacking.įollowing his release from prison Poulsen was briefly barred from using computers. He pleaded guilty to computer fraud and served a little over 5 years in prison. He was featured on NBC’s Unsolved Mysteries, and was finally arrested in April 1991 after 18 months on the run. ![]() When the FBI started pursuing Poulsen, he went underground as a fugitive. By taking over all the phone lines leading to Los Angeles radio stations, he was able to guarantee that he would be the proper-numbered caller to win, for example, $20,000 in cash, and a Porsche 944 S2 Cabriolet. Kevin Poulsen is a former computer hacker, whose best known hack involved penetrating telephone company computers in the early 1990s to win radio station phone-in contests. ![]()
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