'WarGames' teens pulled other raids, lawyer says

August 16, 1983

A handful of youths engineered dozens of ''WarGames'' movie-style raids of government and business computers - not just the few incidents already reported, an attorney for a 17-year-old said.

But Milwaukee lawyer Paul Piaskoski said the group's peek at government computers may have done the nation a favor by pointing up the need for boosted protection of computer files. The FBI is investigating the group for gaining access to computers in the US and Canada - including a government nuclear weapons research laboratory computer in Los Alamos, N.M.