Japanese Hacker Taunts Police With Riddles Including A Memory Card On A Cat's Collar
After cracking a set of riddles, police in Tokyo reportedly found a digital memory card attached to a
The message said the case "changed" the anonymous hacker's life, and added that "no more messages will be sent", Jiji Press news agency and other media reported.
The note may bring to a close a bizarre investigation which has seen threats against a number of venues -- including a school and a kindergarten attended by grandchildren of Emperor Akihito -- sent from computers around the country.
The National Police Agency (NPA) was embarrassed after it emerged that officers had extracted "confessions" from four people who had nothing to do with the threats.
Police held one of the suspects for several weeks before a broadcaster and lawyer received another anonymous message containing information that could only have been known by the real culprit.
The four were released as the NPA chief made a humiliating climbdown, acknowledging police had been the victims of a hacker and promising his cyber-crime unit would brush up its skills.
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