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Hacker reveled the ending of Harry Hotter

June 25, 2007

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An internet site has revealed the new upcoming book about “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”.

The hacker claims to have obtained a full transcipt of the new Harry Potter story by hacking Bloomsbury Publishing, British publisher of the J K Rowling books.

The hacker “Gabriel”, claims to have exploited the PCs of one or more employees at Bloomsbury Publishing by sending an email-borne threat. Once the user activated the threat, by opening the email, the hacker professes to have been able to snag himself a draft copy of the highly anticipated book.

“Companies are being targeted everyday,” said Simon Clausen, CEO of PC Tools. “Corporate and personal espionage have been taken to a whole new level due to the easy accessibility of the building blocks to create threats. Previously only an experienced hacker would be able to produce custom threats, but these days any technically savvy individual or even ‘script-kiddies’ can plug the pieces together like Lego and easily make their own.

“Hackers are regularly using popular events or a newsworthy item to entice users, with what is usually a piece of fiction,” said Clausen.