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The Cuckoo's Egg
The First Cyber-Espionage Hunt
"How a 75-cent accounting error led to the discovery of a KGB espionage ring."
1986
The Anomaly
Clifford Stoll, an astronomer turned systems administrator at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, notices a 75-cent error in computer accounts. He decides to investigate.
1987
Markus Hess
After months of surveillance (honeypot), Stoll traces the intrusion back to Markus Hess, a German hacker selling US military secrets to the KGB.
Mission Status: Complete
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