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FBI Charges Blind Phone Phreak With Intimidating a Verizon Security Official

posted onJune 9, 2008
by hitbsecnews

Less than two months after his celebrating his 18th birthday, a blind, East Boston-based phone hacker has been arrested for paying a Sunday afternoon visit to the Verizon security officer who'd been chasing him.

Matthew Weigman, known on the telephone chat lines as Li'l Hacker, is charged in federal court in Dallas with obstruction of justice and retaliation against a witness, after he was picked up by local police in Amherst, New Hampshire over Memorial Day weekend.

Weigman allegedly persuaded a fellow hacker to drive him and his brother 66 miles to the home of William Smith, a Verizon security investigator who'd been monitoring Weigman's hacking and phoning in updates to the FBI. Smith was outside doing yard work when the three men drove up, according to an FBI affidavit. Weigman introduced himself and said he wanted to talk to Smith, who instead went inside and called the police.

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