{"id":1838,"date":"2003-12-15T21:13:31","date_gmt":"2003-12-16T01:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/12\/15\/teens-hack-on-line-160-mil-shopping-sp"},"modified":"2003-12-15T21:13:31","modified_gmt":"2003-12-16T01:13:31","slug":"teens-hack-on-line-160-mil-shopping-spree-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/15\/teens-hack-on-line-160-mil-shopping-spree-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens Hack On-line $160 Mil Shopping Spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2047'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/teeeens.jpg\" width=\"242\" height=\"242\" align=\"left\">BERLIN<br \/>\n        (Reuters) &#8211; Three German teenagers were being investigated for fraud<br \/>\n        Friday after they spent $160<br \/>\n        million in a two-hour<br \/>\n        Internet shopping spree because they were &quot;bored,&quot; authorities<br \/>\n        said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>        The 19-year-olds splashed out on light aircraft, patents, industrial<br \/>\n        machinery, restaurants and artwork after hacking into an account on an<br \/>\n        Internet auction site.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They gave boredom as the motive and made no attempt to disguise<br \/>\n        what fun they had buying only the most expensive things,&quot; according<br \/>\n        to police in the western town of Limburg.<br \/>\n      They said state prosecutors are investigating. <\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.excite.com\/odd\/article\/id\/373233|oddlyenough|12-15-2003::09:49|reuters.html\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (Reuters) &#8211; Three German teenagers were being investigated for fraud Friday after they spent $160 million in a two-hour Internet shopping spree because they were &quot;bored,&quot; authorities said Friday. The 19-year-olds splashed out on light aircraft, patents, industrial machinery, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/15\/teens-hack-on-line-160-mil-shopping-spree-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}