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The 1985 KGB Hack - YouTube
This is a quick summary of a West German hacker's Computer Network Exploitation (CNE) of U.S. targets including the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, right here in the Bay Area. The hacker was selling the information he exfiltrated to the Soviets. LBNL employee Cliff Stoll discovered the intrusion in the course of investigating an accounting discrepancy of 75 cents. Stoll documented the story in his book The Cuckoo's Egg. In 1990, public TV program "Nova" devoted an episode to Stoll & his book; that episode (~1 hour long) is also available on YouTube; it's a hoot to watch.
(Note to German-speaking students: I don't think Stoll intended to use the book's title as a double entendre to call the West German hacker something rude, but you never know.)
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