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World Wide Web of Trouble for Some Savannah Drivers
From: Dissent <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:53:32 -0400
More than 8,800 people have letters in their mailboxes from the City of Savannah saying their personal information may have been compromised. With dozens of servers carrying millions of names and files, Savannah IT director Jerry Cornish says the city is very conscious of computer security. But it was a small mistake online that left a big security breach behind. "We had poked a hole in the firewall to allow that access," said Cornish. "Those text files were exposed to the internet." The pictures and video taken by the red light cameras were available for whoever committed the offense. Unfortunately, those pictures and video, along with personal information, was available to anyone who searched for them for a seven-month-long period. That means, along with video of red light running, names, addresses, birth dates, and in some cases social security numbers were there for the taking. All available just by searching for someone's name through Google. [... ] http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5436458&nav=0qq6 _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 146 million compromised records in 361 incidents over 6 years.
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