Swedish teen hackers caught

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Swedish teen hackers caught
By Reuters
Special to CNET NEWS.COM
January 21, 1998, 12:30 p.m. PT

STOCKHOLM--Two young Swedish hackers who turned a Swedish county's home page into an advertisement for pornography and cannabis and broke into the U.S. space agency's computer system have been found, local media reported.

After a year-long hunt, police in Umea in northern Sweden finally traced the two youths, aged 18 and 15, and seized their computers, the newspaper Vasterbottens Folkblad said today.

Police were quoted as saying no charges would be filed because no economic crime had been committed.

They said the older of the two youths was known to the authorities after his involvement in a case of illegal data entries and computer fraud two years ago for which an older youth was sent to jail.