And he had posted a little news story there that he'd broken into a couple of different e-commerce sites, and stolen 3,000 or 4,000 credit card numbers at this time, and was just sort of bragging about it. . . . One, he broke into a Canadian web site, this web site in Markham. The second reason was that he just didn't really seem to have any kind of ethic, be it good or bad. I mean, even the bad guys that I deal with on a daily basis in this hacker subculture still have some type of ethic. . . .
Hackers have a sort of honor among thieves.
There's this hacker ethic, and this guy just didn't seem to have that. So, I think that's kind of what drove me to go after him a bit. . . . It was just this bragging and the lack of ethic. He wrote a little news blurb for hackernews, bragging about breaking into these two sites and stealing 4,000 or 5,000 credit card numbers at the time. He also contacted the media, NBC, CNN, all these people.