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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