One of the three men charged with hacking into the Web site for Comcast’s Internet customers last year has pleaded guilty, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia said Wednesday.
Christopher Allen Lewis, whose hacker alias was EBK, pleaded guilty to conspiring to disrupt service on the comcast.net site on May 28 and 29.
Lewis, 20, of Newark, Del., was charged in November, along with James Robert Black, whose hacker name was Defiant, and Michael Paul Nebel, who went by the name Slacker. Black and Nebel are awaiting court dates.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said the men, who were associated with the hacker group Kryogenics, on May 28 redirected traffic destined for comcast.net to Web sites they had set up.
As a result, Comcast customers trying to get their e-mail or voice mail from comcast.net that day found themselves viewing a Web site containing the message, “KRYOGENIKS Defiant and EBB RoXed COMCAST sHouTz to VIRUS Warlock elul21 coll1er seven.”
Lewis will be sentenced May 21. He faces up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, a $100 special assessment, up to three years of supervised release and could be ordered to pay restitution.