The next year, in fact, a group of teenagers broke into military networks using the same kinds of low-level techniques, in a case dubbed Operation Solar Sunrise. The intruders, who pilfered sensitive data across five hundred systems, turned out to be two California teens on a digital joyride, egged on by an Israeli hacker named Ehud Tenenbaum. At the time, the DoD was prosecuting two military campaigns, in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Iraq. The intrusion, to military leaders, looked a lot like what enemy attackers would do if they were trying to gain a battlefield advantage.
Teenage hackers who seemed to be behaving like a government mounting a digital attack. Similar to War Games. People got spooked.
