But StrongWebmail not yet ready to concede, wants to confirm claims

Three security researchers today claimed that they had hacked into the e-mail account of the CEO of StrongWebmail, the company that said two weeks ago it would pay $10,000 to the first person who broke into the account.

Working as a team, Aviv Raff, Lance James, and Mike Bailey took up the challenge and have accessed the CEO's account, Raff said in an instant message today.

Raff, an Israeli researcher, frequently uncovers vulnerabilities in browsers, and may be best known for digging up an Internet Explorer connection to the so-called "carpet bomb" attacks first pegged to a bug in Apple's Safari.

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