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When Hax0rs Strike!
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 14:20:26 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Randall <rvh40 () insightbb com> Date: May 7, 2009 1:20:46 PM EDTTo: johnmacsgroup () yahoogroups com, Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com >, David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: When Hax0rs Strike! Hackers Break Into Virginia Health Professions Database, Demand Ransom By Brian Krebs Washington Post May 4, 2009 Hackers last week broke into a Virginia state Web site used by pharmacists to track prescription drug abuse. They deleted records on more than 8 million patients and replaced the site's homepage with a ransom note demanding $10 million for the return of the records, according to a posting on Wikileaks.org, an online clearinghouse for leaked documents. Wikileaks reports that the Web site for the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program was defaced last week with a message claiming that the database of prescriptions had been bundled into an encrypted, password-protected file. ... http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/05/hackers_break_into_virginia_he.html http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Over_8M_Virginian_patient_records_held_to_ransom,_30_Apr_2009 --The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the privileges of the underprivileged. H. L. Mencken
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