UPDATED: Cumberlands student arrested for hacking faces porn charge at On the Beat in the Bluegrass

UPDATED: Cumberlands student arrested for hacking faces porn charge

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on November 20, 2008

. Tags: computer hacking, hacking, identity theft, Sungkook Kim, University of the Cumberlands.

UPDATED: Suspect faces additional child porn charge

Herald-Leader Staff Report

Police say a University of the Cumberlands student intercepted messages and gained personal information about other students.

Attorney General Jack Conway today announced that the Williamsburg Police Department in a joint investigation with his Cybercrimes Unit arrested 23-year-old Sungkook Kim for allegedly hacking into his fellow students’ email accounts and trying to blackmail them with personal information that he obtained. He is charged with identity theft, first-degree unlawful access to a computer and second-degree unlawful access to a computer.

“I appreciate the university’s cooperation in this investigation,” Conway said in a statement released Monday afternoon. “Our investigators are currently examining the digital forensics in our lab and will soon be able to determine how sophisticated this operation was and if additional charges could be filed.”

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Ashlee Clark is the Richmond bureau reporter for the Herald-Leader. She has covered general assignments in Madison, Clark, Estill, Powell and Montgomery counties since she joined the newspaper in September 2007. Ashlee, a Louisville native, is a graduate of Western Kentucky University, where she received degrees in journalism and sociology.

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