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Article: Philippine student group notorious for hacking.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
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- Network World
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- May 15, 2000
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MANILA - The underground student organization being implicated in the "I Love You" virus case is notorious for spreading viruses and hacking local Internet service providers.
The group, Grammersoft had tried to hack into Moscom Internet, the country's largest ISP, several times in the past and have intentionally spread viruses to Moscom subscribers at least twice, said Willy Gan, the company's president.
Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) have been investigating the group after computer experts discovered the word Grammersoft embedded in the code of the "I Love You" virus which affected computer systems worldwide and caused an estimated damage of $10 ...