FBI Nabs CTA "Radio Hacker"

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Aug 3, 2009 5:40PM

In one of the stranger stories we've run across this morning, the FBI has apparently arrested a man who hacked into the CTA's radio frequencies and was passing himself off as a rail official. According to the Tribune, "Once the threat was identified, CTA officials implemented precautions limiting the individual to communicating with the CTA's operations command center, but not to train operators or other personnel in the field." He's no teen cop impersonator, but that doesn't make us feel any better. [via]