Re: Federal loan Web site left unprotected

[blitz <blitz () strikenet kicks-ass net>]

What part of "DON'T USE PRODUCTION DATA" do they not understand? Sheesh!

At 09:40 9/17/2006, you wrote:
> Complications from a computer software upgrade caused a security
> breach that left loan borrowers' private information, such as their
> Social Security numbers, unprotected online.
>
> The problem occurred from the evening of Aug. 20 to the morning of
> Aug. 22 on the Web site of Direct Loans. Direct Loans is part of the
> William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program within the Dept. of
> Education and Federal Student Aid.
>
> Anyone who used the Web site and performed the same transaction at
> the same time in the same part of the system as another user could
> have had his or her data exposed, Bushman said.
>
> ...  She estimated that 21,000 accounts of the more than six million
> on the system could have been affected. All those potentially
> affected already would have been notified, she said.
>
> [...]
>
> http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060917/NEWS01/609170310/1079/NEWS01
>
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