A 24-year-old University of Michigan graduate student has been charged with hacking into U-M's computer system and using the private usernames and passwords of more than 60 students and professors to forge e-mails and get copies of final exams.
Ning Ma was arraigned Friday on 23 felony charges related to unauthorized use of a computer and eavesdropping.
Among the fake e-mails Ma is accused of sending is one from a professor's account to a female student, telling the student she was failing a course. Ma then offered to tutor the student in hopes of obtaining sexual favors in return, the Michigan Attorney General's office said.
Ma also canceled a job interview for one student, obtained a credit card number and bank account and PIN number of another student, and got into network storage areas of two professors, giving him access to final exams and answer sheets, the attorney general's office said.
It doesn't appear initially that Ma ran up any charges on the credit card, Eastman said.
The charges date from August 2002 to April 2003.
Ma is in the financial engineering master's program, which falls under U-M's School of Engineering. The field of study combines economics, business and finance, industrial and operations engineering, electrical engineering and computer.
A native of China, Ma did not understand Magistrate George Parker's questions during his court hearing Friday. When Parker asked whether Ma wanted to stand mute or plead not guilty to the charges and whether he could afford to hire an attorney, Ma asked the magistrate to explain what he meant by standing mute. He also asked how to get an attorney, saying he was guilty of some of the charges but wanted to talk to a lawyer about the others.
Parker told him the court would help him find a lawyer.
Parker set bail at 10 percent of $1 million, ordered Ma to turn over his passport and scheduled a preliminary examination for Aug. 13. With feet shackled and wearing an orange jail jumpsuit, Ma was returned to jail after he was arraigned.
Ma was connected to the Internet via private Internet service provider Synergy Broadband. In June, investigators searched Synergy's files to confirm Ma's Internet protocol, or IP, address. An IP address identifies a sender or a recipient of information that is sent in packets across the Internet. Officials say an IP address suspected in several of the cyber frauds matched one designated to Ma's Internet connection at his room in University Towers.
The formal list of charges against Ma is 16 counts of unauthorized access to a computer, computer system or computer network, a five-year felony; five counts of eavesdropping, a two-year felony; and one count each of unlawful possession of an eavesdropping device, a two-year felony, and using a computer to commit a crime, a four-year felony. 作者: leeciao 时间: 2003-8-3 19:42
ft!what a shame!!作者: marquis 时间: 2003-8-7 09:27
请问上面新闻的出处？？作者: funnytiger 时间: 2003-8-7 12:25
this happens every year..what can I say...作者: chipmunk 时间: 2003-8-7 13:43
作者: foreverjoy 时间: 2003-8-7 16:15
This is the sure news , I knew that guy . what I am concern is It is more difficult for chinese to apply this Uni. in future .作者: piloteer 时间: 2003-8-8 07:53
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