USAF Airman Arrested for Illegal Hacking
The National Police Agency's Cyber Terror Countermeasure Center, along with the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigation (OSI), said Thursday that they were questioning a 24-year-old airman first class of the USAF at Osan Air Base on charges of hacking into the Internet homepages of 113 Korean sites, including education institutes and venture companies.
The police stated the airman used a computer at his office or at the house of his Korean girlfriend to break into Korean sites. Most recently he allegedly got into the server of an elementary school in Namhae, Gyeongnam Province from his office desktop on April 13. He is charged with deleting the school's home page, replacing it with abusive words in English and leaving a backdoor.
