Arrest Warrant Issued for N.Y. Times Hacker Fri Sep 5, 7:55 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Federal law enforcement officials have obtained an arrest warrant for a hacker who makes a habit of breaking into corporate computers and then publicly exposing the security holes, a spokeswoman for a federal public defender's office confirmed on Friday. The complaint against Adrian Lamo is sealed so the details were not released, said a spokeswoman in the Federal Public Defender's office in Sacramento, California, where Lamo's family lives. The spokeswoman said her office was contacted by either Lamo or his family to help with his representation given the pending arrest. Lamo could not immediately be reached for comment. In an interview with SecurityFocus.com published on the Web site on Friday, Lamo said he believed the warrant was related to his hacking into The New York Times' computer system early last year. He also said he did not plan to turn himself in. Lamo exploited weaknesses in the newspaper's password policies and gained access to social security (news - web sites) numbers and home numbers for thousands of people, including former president Jimmy Carter, former secretary of state James Baker and actors Robert Redford and Warren Beatty, SecurityFocus.com reported. A spokeswoman for The New York Times did not immediately return a call seeking comment late on Friday. The U.S. Attorney's office for the southern district of New York declined to comment on the case.

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Technology - Reuters New York Times Hacker Says Willing to Surrender Sun Sep 7, 4:24 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A 22-year-old hacker known for breaking into corporate networks and publicly exposing the security holes said he is prepared to surrender to federal authorities looking to arrest him for computer crimes, including breaking into The New York Times network last year. Adrian Lamo did not reveal his whereabouts in a telephone interview on Saturday with Reuters, but did say he plans to turn himself in with the help of the Federal Public Defender's office in Sacramento, California, near where his parents live. The Public Defender's office tried to contact the U.S. Attorney's office on Friday to discuss the matter, he said. There was no one available for comment at the U.S. Attorney's office in New York on Sunday. The office had declined to comment on Friday. A spokeswoman for The New York Times said the company was cooperating with a federal investigation into the February 2002 security breach of the newspaper's network, but declined to comment further. The complaint against Lamo is sealed, the Public Defender's office said. Lamo said he has broken into Web sites of Yahoo, Google and other companies. Asked why he did it to show the companies' the weaknesses in their systems, he said no. "I don't see myself as some sort of white knight to make companies better," he said. "I was just in the right place at the right time."