A teenage girl may have played a central role in Anonymous' hacking of security firm HBGary.

"A key part of the hack against HBGary involved the impersonation of Barr in an exchange of emails with an IT administrator (Nokia security specialist Jussi Jaakonaho) in order to gain access to HBGary's servers," writes The Register's John Leyden. "The hacker, who used social engineering trickery to persuade Jaakonaho to drop security defenses and allow in-bound connections, has since identified herself as a 16-year-old girl called Kayla in an interview with Forbes."

"Anonymous vouches for Kayla, which is hardly convincing because the group is notorious for pranks almost as much as anything else," Leyden writes.

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