LOS ANGELES—A 23-year-old hacker who gained access to T-Mobile USA Inc.’s network and accessed the personal information of about 400 customers has been sentenced to a year of home detention, the Associated Press reported.
Nicholas Lee Jacobsen also must pay $10,000 to T-Mobile USA to cover losses associated with his break-in to the system in 2004.
Jacobson, who now lives in Oregon, “said that he lacked ‘comprehension and maturity’ when he targeted the network,” the AP reported; Jacobson also admitted to U.S. District Judge George King that he had done “some very stupid things.”
Among the customers whose accounts Jacobson was able to access was a Secret Service agent, and the hacker was reportedly able to read some information that Special Agent Peter Cavicchia accessed through a Sidekick. The Secret Service said that no investigations were compromised, according to the AP.
