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Re: Olympic Funding Chicago?
From: Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 08:04:14 -0500
While I'm tempted to agree, I don't think there's nearly enough information in the single media report to say "This has the smell of an inside job ALL OVER it." On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 04:28:08AM -0500, blitz wrote: | Hard drives alone like that would make one think it was a well planned job. | Someone wanted that specific information, and its a LOT easier to put a couple | hard drives in your pocket than take the whole computer. Whole bunches less | conspicious. | Whoever did this had a specific target and knew what they wanted...do doubt | about it. | With hard drives approaching the price of breakfast cereal, no one but a | determined, focused thief would take the trouble to dismount them. | This has the smell of an inside job ALL OVER it. | | | | At 18:38 3/2/2006, you wrote: | | Does anyone know anything? there's not quite enough here for my stereotyped | blog headline... | | http://www.pioneerlocal.com/cgi-bin/ppo-story/localnews/current/eb/ | 03-02-06-846416.html | | > George Gilou arrived at his mortgage office Feb. 6 and discovered | > the back door had been forced open. It didn't take long before he | > realized the business he owns, Olympic Funding Chicago, 6308 | > N. Milwaukee Ave., had been burglarized. | > | > According to police reports, three computer hard drives were stolen, | > containing clients names, social security numbers, addresses and | > phone numbers. | | In particular, was this actually just the hard drives being stolen? | How many people were affected? | | Adam | | | _______________________________________________ | Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) | http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/ | | | -- | This message has been scanned for viruses and | dangerous content by MailScanner, and is | believed to be clean. | | | -- | This message has been scanned for viruses and | dangerous content by MailScanner, and is | believed to be clean. | -- | This message has been scanned for viruses and | dangerous content by MailScanner, and is | believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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