"Comments from computer chief Ellie Gillespie, who was angry but not enough to determine whether if they were just fooling around or actually committing a crime, and Lt. John Ryle of the Chicago Police Department, who estimates DePaul's loss from this to be around $22,000 and that their extortion demand in and of itself was a crime."
"UPDATE: A happy ending for at least one of the suspects, Brian Catlin, who went on to a prosperous career in computers and currently still works for Microsoft and lives in Hawaii."