Nation IN BRIEF: WASHINGTON, D.C. : Persistent Hacker Could Face Prison

Chad Davis wasn’t intimidated when FBI agents showed up with a search warrant and seized computer equipment, according to federal officials in Washington. Less than four weeks after the FBI searched his apartment in Green Bay, Wis., he defiantly hacked into a U.S. Army computer at the Pentagon, according to a federal complaint. During the first search, Davis admitted that he belonged to a hacking gang that calls itself “Global Hell,” which is accused of numerous intrusions into government computer systems. In addition, he is alleged to have assisted in the hacking of corporate and private Web sites, and may have helped himself to two years’ worth of free access to the Internet through a local provider in Green Bay. Davis is charged with multiple offenses that could bring a lengthy prison term. He is the only person arrested so far in a nationwide investigation of Global Hell.