TelCom Hacker Finally Captured

by Richard Kwong

St. Augusta, Antarctica-- After four years of searching, FBI agents announced that they apprehended the TelCom Hacker in St. Augusta yesterday. The identity of the hacker is yet to be announced.

In a joint FBI-CIA operation, the location of the infamous hacker was determined through an anonymous informant. The culprit was found living in a small 3-room apartment on the outskirts of St. Augusta. The apartment was dirty and rodent-infested, but the area where the system was located was immaculate. The equipment that was used to break into other systems is the very newest in computer hardware and software—ranging from the 25GB/s Decoder (a password cracker), to a 15-level FireWall program. Sources say that the system found in the TelCom Hacker’s apartment is of the same quality and high-tech sophistication as the systems used by the CIA and the FBI. Officials are puzzled as to where the hacker obtained the sophisticated equipment that he used to cause so much havoc.

The TelCom Hacker first appeared four years ago, when the files in the Pentagon system were found to have been altered or downloaded. Since then, the hacker has broken into the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, and Interpol systems. The name "TelCom Hacker" was first introduced after TelCom Inc., the world’s telecommunications system was broken into in February of 2098. Numerous viruses were put into the system and news, music, and global communications broadcasts were canceled for two weeks while the TelCom system was being brought back up. Afterwards, a worldwide, 25 nation manhunt was started and lasted until yesterday’s capture. The hacker was able to elude global officials by masking his transmission signals. This was accomplished by beaming the signals to numerous satellites instead of using one—an untraceable method.

It is suspected that the TelCom Hacker broke into the voting system two years ago and tampered with the results of the American presidential election and the British Prime Minister election. Since then, an on-going investigation of the legitimacy of the outcomes of these elections has been under way.