Congressional aide tries to pay hackers to 'adjust' his college transcript

2muchcoffeeman · Dec 22, 2006

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/9999

Network World said:

The communications director for Montana's lone congressman solicited the services of two men he falsely believed to be criminally minded hackers-for-hire -- with the expressed goal of jacking up his college GPA -- during an exchange that spanned 22 e-mails over two weeks this past summer.

Todd Shriber, 28-year-old press aide to U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., e-mailed the security Web site attrition.org on Aug. 9, writing: "I need to urgently make contact with a hacker that would be interested in doing a one-time job for me. The pay would be good. I'm not sure what exactly the job would entail with respect to computer jargon, but I can go into rough detail upon making contact with a candidate."

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Two members of attrition.org, "Lyger" and "Jericho" (a.k.a. "security curmudgeon") corresponded with Shriber and fooled him into believing that they would carry out his wishes, with Jericho warning him at one point: "You are soliciting me to break the law and hack into a computer across state lines. That is a federal offense and multiple felonies."

Shriber wanted Lyger and Jericho to break into the computer system at Texas Christian University, from which he graduated in 2000.

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Asked why he launched the scheme, Shriber told me, "I would rather not get into that at all. I just got a little too far ahead of myself thinking about things down the road." His college grades "weren't that great," he acknowledged.
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The original e-mails are posted on this link at www.attrition.org, but the site is slashdotted:

A page on Attrition.org said:

From: Todd Shriber (nascar24_08530@yahoo.com)
To: security curmudgeon (jericho@attrition.org)
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:44:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Question for you or other Attrition members

OK here it is: I need an adjustment to my college GPA.
Is this an absurd request?
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cranberry · Dec 22, 2006

Gotta love the NASCAR24 e-mail address.

sportschick · Dec 22, 2006

I LOVE Montana politics. That is all

playthrough · Dec 22, 2006

Read the chain of e-mails sent between Shriber and the pretend-hacker. The hacker got him to take pictures of squirrels. Classic, classic stuff.

Love how he said he didn't want a change to a 4.0 average, but something a bit more "modest". What, A's in the poli-sci courses, maybe some scattered B-pluses in foreign languages and then B's across the board?

Upper Tupper · Dec 22, 2006

Am waiting for Fox News to cover this one, those chicken asses.

Fenian_Bastard · Dec 22, 2006

God, I miss the days when political corruption was only about money.
Damn Christians.

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