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News Burst: Irish hack attack lands teenager in trouble

Will Knight ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 29 Aug 2000 09:27 BST

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Police investigators in Ireland have questioned a teenager following a computer attack on the country's largest Internet service provider Eircom, earlier this month.

The assault was carried out on 17 August and forced Eircom to alter 30,000 of its customers' Internet dial-up and email account passwords.

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