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Hackers post BART cops' personal information
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:31:12 -0500 (CDT)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> Forwarded from: Robert Carleton <rbc (at) rbcarleton.com> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/17/BA101KOI7G.DTL By Demian Bulwa, Vivian Ho Chronicle Staff Writers San Francisco Chronicle August 17, 2011 (08-17) 19:05 PDT OAKLAND -- Hackers carried out a second cyber-attack against BART Wednesday, breaching the website of the union that represents the agency's rank-and-file police and releasing a roster of 102 officers and other employees along with their home addresses, e-mail addresses and passwords for the site. The roster was published on a separate website, where the hackers wrote, "Yet another success." The hack attack, which the FBI is investigating, was a response to BART's decision to temporarily shut down underground cellular and wi-fi service at its downtown San Francisco stations Aug. 11. BART had hoped to keep protesters from corresponding while trying to disrupt train service. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Learn encryption strategies that manage risk and shore up compliance. Download Article 1 of CREDANT Technologies' The Essentials Series: Endpoint Data Encryption That Actually Works http://credant.com/campaigns/realtime2/gap-LP1/
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