Fugitive North Hills Hacker Arrested in N. Carolina : Crime: Kevin Mitnick eluded authorities for two years. He is alleged to have cost victims millions.

This Los Angeles Times report covers Kevin Mitnick’s arrest by the FBI on February 15, 1995, in Raleigh, North Carolina, ending a two-and-a-half-year manhunt. Reporters John Johnson, Ronald J. Ostrow, and Josh Meyer detail the allegations that Mitnick’s intrusions cost victim companies millions of dollars.

The article situates the arrest within the broader pursuit that had made Mitnick one of the FBI’s most-wanted computer fugitives, following his 1992 disappearance after a probation violation investigation.