Robert Schifreen

Robert Schifreen

Robert Jonathan Schifreen (born October 1963) was a UK-based computer hacker, magazine editor, and later became a computer security consultant. He was the first person charged with illegally accessing a computer system, but was acquitted because there was no such specific criminal offence at the time. Later in life he became an IT security trainer.

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