microrobert
01-10-2013, 03:58 PM
Japanese hacker continues to taunt police with clue strapped to cat
Police in Japan have recovered a memory card from the collar of a cat found wandering on an island near Tokyo -- the latest bizarre turn in their hunt for a hacker, one who has been taunting them with clues for several months.
In December 2012 the National Police Agency (NPA) -- Japan's central law enforcement body, comparable to the FBI in the United States -- offered a bounty of ¥3m (£21,000) for a hacker who had been sending emails from computers around the country containing bomb threats against schools and kindergartens, including one attended by the grandchildren of Emperor Akihito.
Emails to public authorities and media organisations, as well as messages posted on public forums, have led the Japanese police on a fruitless and embarrassing chase around the country.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/07/japan-cat-collar-hacker-clue
Police in Japan have recovered a memory card from the collar of a cat found wandering on an island near Tokyo -- the latest bizarre turn in their hunt for a hacker, one who has been taunting them with clues for several months.
In December 2012 the National Police Agency (NPA) -- Japan's central law enforcement body, comparable to the FBI in the United States -- offered a bounty of ¥3m (£21,000) for a hacker who had been sending emails from computers around the country containing bomb threats against schools and kindergartens, including one attended by the grandchildren of Emperor Akihito.
Emails to public authorities and media organisations, as well as messages posted on public forums, have led the Japanese police on a fruitless and embarrassing chase around the country.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/07/japan-cat-collar-hacker-clue