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IP: Egghead scrambles to gauge damage - bad scene
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 19:10:04 -0500
Egghead scrambles to gauge damage An intruder may have poached the online electronics and computer retailer's database of 3.7 million customers, including credit card information. The FBI and security experts are on the case. By Robert Lemos and Ben Charny, ZDNet News December 22, 2000 12:37 PM PT Egghead.com scrambled on Friday to gauge how much of its 3.7-million-customer database had been stolen by intruders during an online theft, which experts believed happened the day before. "We're in continuous crisis mode here," said a consultant from physical and electronic security firm Kroll Worldwide--the experts called in when Egghead discovered the intrusion on Thursday. The consultant asked not to be named. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2668562,00.html For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/
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