Flight 103 magazine hack

[snopes]

Comment: Not exactly a rumor, I know it is true but would like
verification.

A hacker penetrated Smithsonian Magazine and altered the content of an
article. The combined changes contained veiled references to an attack on
a transatlantic jetliner. It was the January issue; but was mailed in mid
December. Though the article concerned aviation; it was in the regular
Smithsonian magazine instead of Air and Space. The flight number 103, the
date, the fact the bomb would be boarded from a connecting flight and even
the fact that the detonation device would be a time delayed barometric
sensor. There was even a photo containing an arrow with made with a light
pen that pointed to the exact cargo bay the bomb wound up in.

The magazine containing the changes made by the hacker was mailed to
30,000 subscribers before the hack was discovered. My step-father was one
of them.

I notified the FBI as soon as I saw the article; but the official story to
this day is that "we recieved no specific intelligence concerning Flight
103".

Two FBI agents visited my school and told me they had had trouble with
"international cooperation". Also a file had been started on me entitled
"The Boy who cried Bomb; and there was one".