The State - News from Jan. 29, 1986

Two students who stole an operations manual and word-processing software from the California Lottery in hopes of cracking the lottery computer have been placed on one-year probation and ordered to donate 30 hours each in community service. Oh Kwon, 23, a student at the University of California, Davis, and Ki Young Sung, 24, a student at Sacramento City College, were sentenced in Sacramento Municipal Court after pleading guilty to computer crimes. The students worked as night watchmen for the lottery last fall and stole the manual and software in hopes of cracking the main computer to find out which retail outlets were selling the big money-winning tickets, according to Lew Ritter, lottery security chief.