September 3, 1999

Former Network Administrator Faces Felony Charges in Hacker Case

By FLORENCE OLSEN

Local authorities have charged a 25-year-old former computer-network administrator at the University of Oklahoma with using the network to operate a Web site for hackers when he worked there.

Ryan Larry Breding is the only person authorities have charged after a two-year investigation. The inquiry was prompted by an August 1997 incident in which heavy use mysteriously disabled the campus network just as upperclassmen were arriving for the fall term.

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