Comcast Homepage Hackers Indicted

By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com

The hackers ages 19 and 20 at the time known as Defiant and EBK from a group calling themselves Kryogeniks. Where they screwed up during their stunt was when they changed the contact information for the Comcast.net domain to Defiant’s e-mail address. Brilliant hackers yet not so smart.

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