I stumbled across this article in the Seattle Times regarding the hacker attack in 1995:

     http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19950706&slug=2129929

     I thought I’d comment on a couple of factual issues twenty years after the fact.  First, the attack wasn’t particularly sophisticated, it took advantage of a race condition that existed in BSD mail and the fact that the old program was setuid root made it possible to abuse the condition to replace the password file.   It was a scripted attack.

    The FBI’s statement that the fact that it came across state lines made it within their jurisdiction is somewhat humorous.  I attempted to get the FBI’s involvement and their response to me was that if it didn’t involve at least half a million in losses, go away because they had bigger fish to catch.