Ehud Tenenbaum
| Ehud Tenenbaum אהוד טננבאום |
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| Born |
August 29, 1979 Hod HaSharon, Israel |
| Other names | The Analyzer, Solar Sunrise, Udi |
| Occupation | Computer security analyst |
| Criminal penalty | Six months of community service, one year of probation, a two-year suspended prison sentence and fined about US$18,000 |
| Conviction(s) | Admitted to hacking US and Israeli computers, and plead guilty to conspiracy, wrongful infiltration of computerized material, disruption of computer use and destroying evidence |
Ehud "Udi" Tenenbaum (Hebrew: אהוד "אודי" טננבאום, born August 29, 1979) also known as The Analyzer, is an Israeli cracker.
Tenenbaum was born in Hod HaSharon in 1979. He is known under the infamous hacker alias "Pink Pony". Tenenbaum became widely famous in 1998, when aged 19 years and while he was the head of a small group of hackers, he was arrested for hacking computers belonging to NASA, The Pentagon, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the Knesset, MIT and other American and Israeli universities such as Dharma and ComTEC. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and other federally funded research sites, and the computer of Israeli President Ezer Weizman, as well as attempting to infiltrate the Israel Defense Forces' classified files. He also hacked into the computers of Palestinian terrorist groups, and claimed to have destroyed the website of Hamas. Tenenbaum installed on some of the servers packet analyzer and trojan horse software. At the time then-US Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre insisted was "the most organized and systematic attack to date" on US military systems. The military thought that they were witnessing a sophisticated Iraqi 'information warfare'. In an effort to stop the supposed Iraqi hackers the United States government assembled agents from the FBI, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, NASA, the US Department of Justice, the Defense Information Systems Agency, the NSA, and the CIA. The government was so worried that the warning and briefings went all the way up to the President of the United States. The investigation, code-named "Solar Sunrise," eventually snared two California teenagers (screen names Mac and Stimpy) and Tenenbaum, but no Iraqi infowarriors. After their arrest, a subsequent probe led US investigators to Tenenbaum, who was arrested after Israeli police were given evidence of Tenenbaum's activities. Later, the FBI sent agents to Israel to question Tenenbaum.
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