Update: Lin Mun Poo, everyone’s favorite pun-worthy hacker, pleaded guilty yesterday to account fraud stemming from his infiltration of Fed computers, according to Bloomberg. Poo’s left a mess of a trail from Malaysia to America, with dangling bits of evidence pointing to coiled layers of hacks and credit card fraud.
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A little corner of Cleveland’s cyberspace was the site of an international siege, it turns out. Coming in hot on the wires is this report from MarketWatch about Lin Mun Poo, a hacker out of Malaysia who cracked the firewall of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank and climbed right in.
The hacker was picked up in October; the Secret Service first got a whiff of Poo when he was in Brooklyn selling stolen credit card info. Mid-grilling, he confessed that he’d slipped into the Cleveland Fed’s system as well as the systems of other financial institutions.
The Fed claims all Poo got into was a test computer. Nothing important was tainted by Poo.
This article appears in Apr 13-19, 2011.
I hope he is convicted and sentenced quickly. We don’t need Poo clogging up our judicial system.
I just am having a hard time understanding why they let Poo get into their system in the first place!
What were they thinking?
And now that Poo’s been in their once, who’s going to be number two, hmm?
No doubt that Poo has left a stain on their reputation. Somebody will raise a stink about this.
Could anything have caught Poo? Depends.
The government’s reputation with cyber protection is kind of streaky. I wonder what dirty laundry a talented hacker could get to plop out.
I agree with Cpax…if poo can get into their system all the way from Malaysia then what about the local material in Cleveland? They really need to flush it all out.
What a surprize, this Poo came out of nowhere. Hopefully, this Poo runs. Wouldn’t want to push and struggle to get him out of Malaysia. Needless to say, I bet Cleveland steamed with the news of this on their chest.
When is this Poo going to get pinched? Poo is just dangling there just waiting to get dropped.
They’re going to hold this Poo for far too long. If they’re not careful, he’ll get trapped in the bowels of the justice system and it’ll take far too long to evacuate Poo.
Poo may be right around the corner waiting to poke his head out, looking for his next victim to digitally stimulate. The population should not be lax about such a crime. Everyone should keep an eye out, especially while dropping the kids off at the pool.
The prosecutor should be really anal with Poo. The media should also stay out of this, or else Poo might think he’s some kind of ass backwards celebrity or stinky star. We can’t turn a brown eye to criminals like this, or else they’ll plug up our system and flow over the edge of our society. If we don’t squeeze out criminals like this, we’ll never feel safe taking the Browns to the Super Bowl again.
When jailed, I hope they put this Poo in the upper deck of the can. I fear the gangs will be able to sniff him out. Though, I do agree, Poo is nothing more than waste and a skid mark of society. Once this Poo is in the hole I will feel 15lbs lighter with this off my mind.
I think we should gain whatever closure we can of this situation and wash our hands of this. Poo as soon as possible. Of course, this will not be accomplished until all of the paperwork is thoroughly completed. I would then suggest that his sentence be vacated as soon as possible,and with as little strain to our justice system as we can manage.
So Poo (how appropriate) got into some poo by pooh-poohing the seriousness of the hack. Seems the most appropriate message would be for him to get off the flight back to Malaysia sans a few digits on both hands.
I doubt Poo was the first to hack their system. He had to be #2.
After Poo got into their computer, is the greek squad going to clean it up?
I nominate this article and these comments for the best internet news of the day (week?)!!! Granted the subject material was there, but nevertheless I couldn’t keep from having a heart HAR HAR! Sub_headline “Poo’s OOPS”.
I nominate this article and these comments for the best internet news of the day (week?)!!! Granted the subject material was there, but nevertheless I couldn’t keep from having a hearty HAR HAR! Sub_headlinecould read “Poo’s OOPS”.