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Practice Reading: Re-order Paragraphs ID: #5546 Hacker
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However, the potential for crime is enormous. Some experts believe that American financial systems are losing up to $5 billion a year to computer fraud. Once a hacker has got into the bank's system, he or she can order it to transfer large sums of money to a foreign account.
Any computer network connected to the telephone system is vulnerable because the hacker needs only to discover the coded password in order to gain entry to the network. All it takes is intelligent guesswork, trial and error, and perseverance.
At first, this appeared to be a perfect example of electronic spying, but it turned out to be a bunch of talented computer buffs doing it for fun. If they had wanted to create real problems, they could have altered files or deleted them altogether.
A German student sitting at home at a computer terminal connected to the telephone system managed to hack into computers of NASA and read top secret files. He and a group of other students in Hamburg had also got into about thirty other restricted computer networks.

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