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Content: use HTML Edit Content <h1 style="text-align: center;">hacker Cameron Lacroix</h1> <h2>[WHAT]</h2> <ol> <li>] former teen hacker Cameron Lacroix, now 26, and a lifelong resident of New Bedford, Massachusetts,</li> <li>] warns that despite security upgrades at major retail chains that have been victimized, he could do it again, big companies are &ldquo;absolutely&rdquo; still vulnerable to hacking</li> <li>] Armed with little more than a $300 Toshiba laptop from Best Buy,</li> <li>] stole nude photos from Paris Hilton&rsquo;s cellphone and swiped a half million dollars from unsuspecting consumers </li> <li>] tells NBC News &ndash; and his most famous victim -- that he&rsquo;s sorry for what he did.</li> <li>] Lacroix is&nbsp; about to report to federal prison to begin a four-year sentence,</li> </ol> <h2>[WHY]</h2> <ol> <li>] stole nude photos from Paris Hilton&rsquo;s cellphone</li> <li>] hacking the Twitter account of Burger King to</li> <li>] forging gift cards to stealing thousands of credit card numbers.</li> <li>] he&rsquo;s even hacked federal law enforcement databases.&nbsp;</li> <li>] making bomb threats to two high schools, and</li> <li>] also admitted attacking the LexisNexis database.</li> <li>] Authorities estimate that Lacroix, who was known by online handles like &ldquo;cam0&rdquo; and &ldquo;Freak,&rdquo; has done more than $1 million in damage to private firms.</li> <li>] used some of the funds to underwrite his growing dependence on opiates.</li> </ol> <h2>[WHERE]</h2> <ol> <li>] <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/ex-teen-hacker-tells-paris-hilton-hes-sorry-n239601" target="_blank">http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/ex-teen-hacker-tells-paris-hilton-hes-sorry-n239601</a></li> </ol> <h2>[WHEN]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h2>[HOW-TO]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h2>[REFERENCE]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h1 style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</h1>