Career
Born in Altona, Illinois in 1959, Headley claims to have dropped out of school in the eighth grade after a difficult childhood. She later moved to Los Angeles, California where she worked as a prostitute. She met computer hacker Kevin Mitnick (also known as Condor) in 1980, and together with another hacker, Lewis de Payne (also known as Roscoe), formed a gang of phone phreaks.
Hacking
An offshoot of the original Roscoe Gang, the new group hacked into various network systems based in California, including United States. Leasing in December 1982 and the Digital Equipment Corporation.
In 1982, Headley testified against Mitnick and de Payne in a theft case related to Pacific Bell telephone company, and she also provided key evidence against de Payne in the United States. Leasing case. At the time she was working as a RSTS system administrator for American Telecommunications Corporation (the makers of the Mickey Mouse Phone) of Los Los Angeles
She then gave up hacking and eventually moved to Las Vegas, where she became a professional poker player. Public service
Headley was elected to public office in California in 1994, as City Clerk of California City.
Personal life
Headley was also a rock groupie in the late 1970s.