Penquin’s Moonlit Maze

–featuring David Hedges, Danny Moore, Costin Raiu, and Thomas Rid


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An Unlikely Discovery

Thomas Rid’s contact with David Hedges, the administrator for ‘HRTEST’ –a company server compromised by state-sponsored hackers in the late ‘90s– enabled a modern day reconstruction of the infamous Moonlight Maze attacks against U.S. government, military, and university research networks.

 
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A Piece of History

‘HRTEST’ is now a permanent part of the International Spy Museum’s cyber espionage exhibit.

 

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