Credit Bureau Security Breached

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http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=5752352&nav=menu73_2

TransUnion Credit Bureau is investigating who was able to get into
their database and illegally download hundreds of people's personal
information.

[...]

According to the information we have, four different scam companies
across the country got more than 1,700 people's credit information
after someone obtained the TransUnion log in information from a
courthouse in Kingman, Arizona.

With that login password, they were able to randomly get the entire
credit histories and social security numbers from hundreds of people.
None of those people had anything to do with Kingman, but being a
government entity, all the hackers needed was one password to gain
information on anyone in the country.

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