1 13 302 Rein 10-6-95 ALL HERE If 4 -1- r v 5 - FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Date of transcription 0 9 l4 9 8 DATE I I DOBI telephone was adv1sed of the identity nterviewing Agents and the purpose of the interview voluntarily furnished the following information recollected that on or about May 15 1998 he returned from a business trip to Japan Upon returning to work he was informed by two co-workers that his Picard account had been hacked into He learned that the intrusion came from the University of Cincinnati UC that his computer usage is minimal He uses the computer for word processing and e mail He has two e mail accounts Picard for long distance e-mail and Teamlinks for e-mail within Wright Patterson Air Force Base WPAFB that as a result of the hacking incident the computer network systems administrator issued everyone with a new password based on name and telephone number Despite this precaution the account was again hacked As recently as July 1998 the systems administrator instructed every user to alter their passwords to make them more difficult to penetrate relayed that his Picard e-mail contacts are extensive He stated that in the last year he has received many messages from the U S and from numerous countries abroad to include England France Germany Finland Russia Chile Japan Ner_Zealand_and_An tralia The e-mail message from Russia came from a reputed well kn from He believes is from Irecalled that has traveled to Dayton and or Columbus Ohio and San Franc1sco California sometime in 1996 annually makes numerous requests seeking joint venture progeczs with WPAFB researchers WPAFB is precluded from acceptinq any ioint venture projects with according to Iadded that has published numerous articles on titanium aluminite that he received one e-mail Investigation on 09 11 98 at Dayton Ohio FM 288-CI-68562 Datedictated 09 14 98 SA by SA This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency i Continuation of FD-302 of 0n 0 9 9 8 Page 2 message from a who inquired about scientific research According to his e mail contacts with U S persons and individuals overseas are all researchers and scientists from sundry educational institutes The e-mail b6 ncern scientific discussions relating to metallurgy b7c that none of his ewmail contacts appear to be out of the scope of his purview that none of the e mail messages requested secret or proprietary information I Irevealed he obtained his U S citizenship on I I haq a q iqtn'r 7 3115 nncz'inq rpqiding in England_ He has worked in in the past As a physicist working in the aforementioned countries he has never held a security clearance He maintains no foreign government contacts A ALL FD-302 Rey 106-95 PEFEEH Ifi DATE - 1 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Date of transcription 0 9 l4 9 8 I IDOBI I SSANI I I Itelephonezl Iwas advised of the identity of the interviewing Agents and the purpose of the interview furnished the following information recalled that ago she received a telephone call on a Monday from CORP inquiring whether or not she was logged on to their system at 3 00 A M in the morning responded negatively and from that moment forward they realized that an unknown individual utilized her username and password to break into the CORP computers and then into Wright Patterson Air Force Base WPAFB Dayton Ohio had an account at for about three years to transfer files and slides relating to the Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processing RASSP program She stated that she no longer holds this account since this incident occurred The account was shut down She claims that none of this information was classified or sensitive Her job requires that she review material to ensure that it is cleared for public domain The information was publicly released releasable she maintains accounts on elhp and Fleetwood a er office She also has root password with her system administrator Imaintains a flyer net account and a sabre account at the University of Dayton UD She had an account at the Air Force Institute of Technology AFIT but believes it is no longer valid had a temporary account at the University of CinCinnati UC for a three day course she attended at UC She held one other account at a company called RTI but believes it is no lenger open that her account was mainly used for uca ion modules and to transfer files FTP She occasionally remote shelled to that account recalled that a week prior to this incident she logged onto the machine to FTP some files She believes she logged on from elhp Investigation on 9 11 9 8 at Dayton Ohio File# -CI-68562 Datedictated 09 14 AFOSI 29 U9 zeal This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency b7C 2136 3375 Rev 10-6-95 r 288-CI-68562 Continuation of FD-302 Page 2 She information from her PC on other occasions affirmed that she has never given out any of her asswords with the exception of her root password on elhp which I Ihas access to as revealed that her passwordl lat was a combination of upper and lower case le ers an symbols which would have been difficult to decipher Ichanged her password the request of that the subject probably could have gotten away with it if they wouldn% have logged in at 3 00 A M on a Sunday morning I Iwas born inl Ithe daughter of a I She has one brother who resides in with their mother Her father is deceased arrived in the U S finish high school in er previously resided She returned to to visit her parents and taught English grammar at for three months during the summer previously married to an a duty U S military serviceman She has been divorced for ears She is a U S c' through her previous marriage to a U S citizen occasionally vs overseas to visit he family Her last tripl was approximately affirmed she has never ecurity er 11 the U S or years ago limited contact with friends and family overseas via e-mail clearance e1
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