All of you that use MySpace, probably know of Tom. Well, today I read a blog post on TechCrunch about him lying about his age on MySpace along with reading that he was a hacker when he was fourteen, couldn’t be arrested (he was a minor). Here’s a quote from the article:

Now we’ve learned a much more colorful part of Anderson’s history: In 1985, when he was fourteen and in high school in Escondido, California, Anderson was subject to one of the largest FBI raids in California history after hacking into a Chase Manhattan Bank computer system and subsequently showing his friends how to do it. He was never arrested because he was a minor, but the FBI confiscated all of his computer equipment and some newspaper accounts of the incident stated incorrectly (see image below from a 1986 LA Times story) that he was “convicted in federal court of computer hacking and placed on probation” (the statements were corrected in subsequent articles). Anderson used the hacker name “Lord Flathead.”

Josh Budde of josh.buddes.net